LMFAO!!!!! [13] He was president of the Student Council of the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. [168], As the leader of the Senate Republicans, McConnell has been at the receiving end of much of the criticism and disapproval that Republicans receive from Democratic voters, receiving near uniform disapproval from left-of-center voters. North Central merged with Southern Airways to become Republic Airlines July, 1979. Shaffer, who at the time worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency, claims he communicated to members of the 9/11 Commission that Able Danger had identified two of the three cells responsible for 9/11 prior to the attacks, but the Commission did not include this information in their final report. [73][74][75] In his public statements, McConnell did not repeat any of Trump's false claims of voter fraud, but did not contradict them, ignoring questions about evidence and instead arguing that Trump had the right to challenge the results. When asked whether the information could have prevented the attack on September 11 of 2001, he answered that he would not speculate to that, but that the information might have been useful. [112][113] Later in a 2019 interview, McConnell credited himself for the large number of judicial vacancies created in the last two years of Obama's presidency. [161][162][163], On September 10, a pared-down COVID-19 relief bill crafted by McConnell failed to advance the Senate past a Democratic filibuster. [6][8], In 1944, at the age of two, McConnell's upper left leg was paralyzed by a polio attack. Or $0.99 to buy. $0.00 $ 0. He told 9/11 Commission staffers Able Danger identified three of the individuals in the terrorist cells that conducted the 9/11 attacks, to include Atta - Shaffer did not mention the names of any other of the 9/11 hijackers in his disclosure to the 9/11 staff. It is most unlikely that Able Danger would have identified a terrorist called "Mohamed Atta" before May 2000. [6] McConnell was born in Sheffield, Alabama, and grew up in nearby Athens, Alabama, where his grandfather, Robert Hayes McConnell Sr. and his great uncle Addison Mitchell McConnell, owned McConnell Funeral Home. "[5] This report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee copied, nearly verbatim, the United States Department of Defense Inspector General's September 2006 report on Able Danger. Advertisement [1], Attorney Mark Zaid, representing Lt. If President Trump were still in office, I would have carefully considered whether the House managers proved their specific charge. [20][21]:1112 His first day of training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, was July 9, 1967, two days after taking the bar exam, and his last day was August 15, 1967. One of his ancestors fought on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. JUAN O' SAVIN: JFK JR, PPTF, FIELD MCCONNELL & TIMOTHY HOLMSETH. 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Free with Kindle Unlimited membership Join Now. Last edited on 27 November 2022, at 16:42, War games in progress on September 11, 2001, "Specter: Pentagon may be obstructing committee", "prepared statement of mark s. zaid, esq., before the committee on judiciary, united states senate", "Exclusive: Witnesses in Defense Dept. Which took us to November 2, 1999, Gould said. Clearly that mandatory sentence cannot be applied to somebody who has left office. [20][22] After five weeks at Fort Knox, he was honorably discharged. speculates that "the 'Atta' fingered by Able Danger was really the first, 'Abu Nidal' Atta, and not the second, 9/11 'Al Qaeda' Atta", and that this may help explain this Able Danger issue. [17] Hamilton told the media, "The Sept. 11 commission did not learn of any U.S. government knowledge prior to 9/11 of surveillance of Mohamed Atta or of his cell. Had we learned of it obviously it would've been a major focus of our investigation. The practice either of posting B-roll footage online for usage by PACs, or of lampooning the B-roll was termed "McConnelling". In November 2006 he was elected Senate minority leader the post he held until Republicans took control of the Senate in 2015. [103], McConnell's relationship with the Biden administration has been portrayed in media as one of comity. However, Defense Intelligence Agency leadership had already ordered the hurried destruction of mined data, source databases, charts and resultant documents on entirely spurious legal grounds. However, some of the people questioned by the IG claimed their statements to the IG were distorted by investigators in the final IG's report, and the report omitted essential information that they had provided. The Pentagon describes the witnesses as "credible" but stated that the document which allegedly mentioned Atta could not be found. Kacie is a former hockey player. His full name is "Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta", and prior to 2000 he went by "Mohamed el-Amir". McConnell invoked the "nuclear option" to eliminate the 60-vote requirement to end a filibuster for Supreme Court nominations, after his predecessor Harry Reid had previously eliminated the filibuster for all other presidential nominations; Trump subsequently won confirmation battles on Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. [30], Shaffer has also told the story of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) opposition to Able Danger, prior to 9/11, based on the view that Able Danger was encroaching on CIA turf. [155] The bill passed in the Senate by a vote of 908. And while youre studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwell act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and thats how things will sort out. [18] Democrats criticized McConnell for not putting appropriations legislation up for a vote, noting that the Republican-controlled Senate had unanimously passed an appropriations bill without wall funding and that the Senate could override Trump's veto. USA UNDER W.H. McConnell worked to withhold Republican support for major presidential initiatives during the Obama administration, having made frequent use of the filibuster, and blocked many of President Obama's judicial nominees, including Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. [49] Senator Specter decided to go forward with the hearings anyway. Senator Specter wondered if the Posse Comitatus Act may have been the reason Defense Department attorneys would not allow Able Danger to turn over information to the FBI. Information regarding her parent's and siblings' occupations, age, and private lives are in the dark. [60] DOD took the highly unusual step of purchasing all available copies of Shaffer's book at a cost of $47,000 and destroying them to deny the public the ability to read the book. [143] In December 2018, the Republican-controlled Senate unanimously passed an appropriations bill without wall funding, and the bill appeared likely to be approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and Trump. He also said why he voted to acquit: "ArticleII, Section4 must have force. Flew Convair 580 domestically. @FieldMcConnell. While supportive of many of Trump's domestic and foreign policies, McConnell was critical of Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and despite voting to acquit on Trump's second impeachment trial on reasons related to the constitutionality of impeaching a former president, deemed him "practically and morally responsible" for the January 6 United States Capitol attack. "[101], In 2021, McConnell sought to organize Republican Senators into filibustering a bipartisan commission to investigate the storming of the Capitol on January 6. [38][39], Former chief assistant U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy and others have asserted that the Able Danger intelligence was suppressed as a result of a policy of forbidding the CIA and FBI to share intelligence known as "the wall. Witnesses reported telling Philip Zelikow, executive director of the 9/11 Commission, that Able Danger had identified Atta well before the 9/11 attacks, but Zelikow showed no interest in their testimony. The witnesses reported to the journalists that the IG investigators got increasingly hostile in an effort to intimidate the witnesses into changing their testimony to drop any assertion that they had identified and tracked Atta, and this suggests a cover-up by the IG of Able Danger's findings. [139][140], In July 2018, McConnell said funding for the MexicoUnited States border wall would likely have to wait until the midterms had concluded. [159], After the passage of the CARES Act, McConnell waited several months before advancing any additional COVID-19 relief measures in the Senate, saying in May "I don't think we have yet felt the urgency of acting immediately," and that Congress should "[hit] pause" to evaluate how the allocated funds were working before approving more. [83][84], On November 5, 2019, as the House of Representatives began public hearings on the impeachment of President Trump, McConnell said, "I'm pretty sure how [an impeachment trial is] likely to end. [197][198] During the campaign, McConnell and McGrath agreed to one hour-long, socially distanced debate on October 12. [133][134] McConnell afterward admitted the confirmation process was a low point for the Senate, but also downplayed reports of dysfunction in the Senate; he said claims that the Senate was "somehow broken over this [were] simply inaccurate". [182], Earlier in his political career, during the 1960s and 1970s, McConnell held moderate stances, including support of abortions, support of unions, and support of the civil rights movement. "[56] The New York Times noted early during Obama's administration that "on the major issues not just health care, but financial regulation and the economic stimulus package, among others Mr. McConnell has held Republican defections to somewhere between minimal and nonexistent, allowing him to slow the Democratic agenda if not defeat aspects of it. [145][146][147], By January 23, McConnell had blocked four Senate bills to reopen the government and a bill funding the Homeland Security Department through February 8. Weldon called the activities "a deliberate campaign of character assassination. [102], On May 28, 2021, McConnell voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack. [95] McConnell called for delaying the Senate trial until after Joe Biden's inauguration. [24] He then went to work for a Louisville law firm, Segal, Isenberg, Sales and Stewart, for a few years. "[85], On December 14, 2019, McConnell met with White House counsel Pat Cipollone and White House legislative affairs director Eric Ueland. Since 2015, she has been dating Eric Hosmer, a professional baseball player. The number of federal judicial vacancies more than doubled comparing the figure near the end of Obama's term to the figure at the end of George W. Bush's term. They further stated that a claim about Atta having been identified prior to the attacks had been made to the 9/11 Commission on July 12, 2004 (just days before the commission's report was released), by a United States Navy officer employed at DOD, but that, The interviewee had no documentary evidence and said he had only seen the document briefly some years earlier. [174], In 2020, according to Morning Consult, Susan Collins edged out McConnell as the most unpopular senator with a 52% unfavorable rating from Maine voters compared to 50% unfavorable for McConnell. [14][20] Shortly after his arrival, he was diagnosed with optic neuritis and was deemed medically unfit for military service. [48] According to Purdue University political scientist Bert A. Rockman, "pure party line voting has been evident now for some time but rarely has the tactic of 'oppositionism' been so boldly stated as McConnell did. 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