McConnell holds conservative political positions, although he was known as a pragmatist and a moderate Republican early in his political career. Weldon went on to claim that he had personally presented the chart to then-Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley in 2001, days after the 9/11 attacks. [137] On October 23, 2020, McConnell set in place the Senate debate for the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg's seat. Christine McConnell is widely known for her creepy DIY creations. Commentators noted that McConnell had kept Republican senators "marching in lockstep" throughout the process. [172] At that time he was briefly not the least popular Senator, and was surpassed by Senators Claire McCaskill and Jeff Flake. 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. [12] McConnell was elected student council president at his high school during his junior year. Advertisement McConnell has opposed stronger regulations, gun control measures and efforts to mitigate climate change. It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early October 1999 by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton, to develop an information operations campaign plan against transnational terrorism. [13] The Pentagon released a statement in response, stating that they wished to address these issues during a congressional hearing before a House Armed Services subcommittee scheduled for Wednesday, February 15, 2006. Join our radio network Today as we host great Live guests and play the best picks of recent recorded shows >> truthcentralradio.com. He led opposition to stricter campaign finance laws, culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Citizens United v. FEC that partially overturned the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold) in 2010. [57], Operation Dark Heart by Anthony A. Shaffer, released in September 2010,[58] includes memories of his time reporting to the 9/11 commission about Able Danger's findings. [51][52][53][54], In October 2010, McConnell said "the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." [194] He faced Democratic Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election, and defeated Grimes, 56.240.7%. Again, the identification of the four 9/11 hijackers was simply through associational activities. [215], In February 2003, McConnell underwent a triple heart bypass surgery in relation to blocked arteries at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. 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A fourth 9/11 terrorist came from the second cell. [33] He was first elected as Majority Whip in the 108th Congress[34] and was unanimously re-elected on November 17, 2004. [46] Eric Umansky states the problem this way: "In fact, the two-Atta theory only leaves one major issue unexplained: What about the three other 9/11 hijackers that Able Danger purportedly fingered? Free with Kindle Unlimited membership Join Now. [148] Privately, other Republican senators pressured McConnell to stop blocking appropriations legislation. There's not anything judicial about it. 8. One of his ancestors fought on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. It is most unlikely that Able Danger would have identified a terrorist called "Mohamed Atta" before May 2000. [37], The Defense Department announced its findings on September 1, 2005, after a three-week investigation into Able Danger. [138], The United States federal government shut down October 117, 2013, following a failure to enact legislation to fund the government. [35] After Republicans took control of the Senate following the 2014 Senate elections, McConnell became the Senate Majority Leader. According to The New York Times, Obama's final two years as president saw 18 district court judges and one appeals court judge confirmed, the fewest since President Harry S. Truman. [153][154] He subsequently reversed his position when Trump endorsed the proposed package. Later that day, McConnell told the media: "I'm not an impartial juror [in this impeachment trial]. McConnell also directed Senate Republicans in negotiations for two other COVID-19 response packages: the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020, and the CARES Act. [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. SHOW NOTES: by Field McConnell | Aug 2, 2011. His comments were met with sharp criticism from various state and local officials. CIA will never provide that to you because if you were successful in your effort to target Al Qaeda, you will steal our thunder. Paul withdrew from the race following the Iowa caucus, and McConnell endorsed presumptive nominee Donald Trump on May 4, 2016. [208][209] His second wife, whom he married in 1993, is Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush and Secretary of Transportation under President Donald Trump. ", "McConnell Strategy Shuns Bipartisanship", "Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan want to weaken incoming Democratic governors. in political science in 1964 with honors. [102], On May 28, 2021, McConnell voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack. [219] McConnell is on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service. Retired USAF Lt. Col Field McConnell says it's been reported to him that Barack Obama was executed on September 29, 2019 by firing squad at GTMO. McconnellRet's net worth is $150,000 (estimated). [19], In 2014, McConnell faced Louisville businessman Matt Bevin in the Republican primary. Left voice mail message as a reporter for Salem-News (Salem, OR) requesting info on the charges against Field McConnell who was arrested on Nov 4th in Plum City: "What are the charges against Field McConnell arrested on Nov 4th in Plum City? She was part of the "Singing Playmates" musical group. [43] Snopes.com clarified a widely circulated email that claimed the two Attas were one and the same. "[101], In 2021, McConnell sought to organize Republican Senators into filibustering a bipartisan commission to investigate the storming of the Capitol on January 6. [91][92][93], On January 12, 2021, it was reported that McConnell supported impeaching Trump for his role in inciting the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, believing it would make it easier for Republicans to purge the party of Trump and rebuild the party. "[132] Kavanaugh was confirmed on October 6. [233][234][235], In 2015 and 2019, Time listed McConnell as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. [citation needed], Mickey Kaus of Slate.com, referring to Tom Maguire's "Two Attas" theory,[42][unreliable source?] [14], Following the GSN report, members of the 9/11 Commission began commenting on the information they had on Able Danger and Atta. The Department of Defense documents had mentioned nothing about Atta, nor had anyone come forward between September 2001 and July 2004 with any similar information. 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[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. After Trump faced heavy criticism from some right-wing media outlets and pundits for appearing to back down on his campaign promise to "build the wall", he announced that he would not sign any appropriations bill that did not fund its construction. One of Holmseth's principal allies is Field McConnell, a 70-year-old former Navy pilot who has become a leading promoter of the QAnon idea that CPS agents are stealing children. The CARES Act was the largest economic stimulus package in U.S. history,[156] amounting to 10% of total U.S. gross domestic product. Captain McConnell can be credited as the first person on earth to expose this system to all. [6][9] He received treatment at the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. "[57] The Republican caucus threatened repeatedly to force the United States to default on its debt, McConnell saying he had learned from the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis that "it's a hostage that's worth ransoming. Addison Mitchell McConnell III[1] (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney serving his seventh term as the senior United States senator from Kentucky, which he has held since 1985. [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. However, this occurred because the inspector at the Miami District Office who changed Atta's admission date failed to follow the proper procedure to ensure that the previous entry would be corrected, and a new entry was created in NIIS. By that time, nearly half of all votes to invoke cloture in the history of the Senate had occurred during Obama's presidency. Weighing this with the information about Atta's actual activities, the negligible information available about Atta to other U.S. government agencies and the German government before 9/11, and the interviewer's assessment of the interviewee's knowledge and credibility, the Commission staff concluded that the officer's account was not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation.[19]. Patience Wait has reported that a follow-on project appears to have been funded and implemented by the Intelligence Community and was originally named Able Providence. Not only did this strategy produce an atmosphere of gridlock and dysfunction; it also chewed up the Senate calendar, restricting the range of issues on which Democrats could progress. You guys are going after the body. "[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. Field McConnell is a career military and airline pilot with connections to the aircraft-related events of 9/11. Gorton also asserted that "the wall" was a long-standing policy that had resulted from the Church Committee in the 1970s, and that the policy only prohibits transfer of certain information from prosecutors to the intelligence services and never prohibited information flowing in the opposite direction. On September 18, 2006, the Office of the Deputy Inspector General for Investigations released a report stating that Shaffer was put on leave, that the crew responsible for removing any classified documents from his office to prevent his taking them home with him found that he did not have any of the Able Danger-related documents trusted to him he claimed he had,[54] and that despite the fact that the Army cleared him of any wrongdoing in the allegations "DIA officials would have taken action to revoke LTC Shaffer's access and clearance regardless of his disclosures to the DIA IG, the 9/11 Commission staff members, Members of Congress, or the media.[55]. Scott Phillpott confirmed Shaffer's claims. [14][20] Shortly after his arrival, he was diagnosed with optic neuritis and was deemed medically unfit for military service. The Pentagon describes the witnesses as "credible" but stated that the document which allegedly mentioned Atta could not be found. American politician and lawyer (born 1942), "Senator McConnell" redirects here. Furthermore, as a result of his unpopularity with Trump and the more populist base, McConnell has had historically low approval for a senator when looking at the electorate as a whole, as a 2012 poll and a 2016 poll each found that McConnell had the lowest home-state approval rating of any sitting senator. [27], As the leading Republican senator, McConnell confronted and pressured other Republican senators who were willing to negotiate with Democrats and the Obama administration. Flew Convair 580 domestically. 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Able Danger was a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). ", This page was last edited on 27 November 2022, at 16:42. It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early October 1999 by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton, to develop an information operations campaign plan against transnational terrorism. A filibuster is an attempt to "talk a bill to death", forcing Senate leadership to abandon a proposed measure instead of waiting out the filibusteror at least to delay the measure's passage. According to statements by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and those of four others, Able Danger had identified two of three al-Qaeda cells active in the September 11 attacks; the 'Brooklyn cell' linked to "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel-Rahman, including 9/11 leader Mohamed Atta, and three of the plot's other 19 hijackers. Abel Danger's Field McConnell Operation Golden Remnant sings "Lead Me, Guide Me" originally by Elvis 7-20-19 . Major Erik Kleinsmith, who was with the Army and chief of intelligence for LIWA until February 2001, testified that he was ordered to destroy Able Danger's information. [26] Weldon gave a talk at the Heritage Foundation with a chart he described as the one handed over on May 23, 2002. [17][21] According to one of his biographers, McConnell transformed "from a moderate Republican who supported abortion rights and public employee unions to the embodiment of partisan obstructionism and conservative orthodoxy on Capitol Hill. Asked whether this meant "endless, or at least frequent, confrontation with the president", McConnell clarified that "if [Obama is] willing to meet us halfway on some of the biggest issues, it's not inappropriate for us to do business with him. 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. According to Shaffer, the CIA representative said, "I clearly understand. [12], In 1956, his family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he attended duPont Manual High School. On September 21, 2006, The Washington Post reported that a Defense Department investigation into Able Danger found that Able Danger did not identify Mohamed Atta or any other hijacker before the September 11 attacks, and that a widely discussed chart was "a sample document passed to the military as an example of how to organize large amounts of data", and was created after 9/11. 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