[36] In June 2018 he became the longest-serving Senate Republican leader in the history of the United States. [12] McConnell was elected student council president at his high school during his junior year. Able Danger members were not prohibited from sharing intelligence information with law enforcement authorities or other agencies that could have acted on that information. USA UNDER W.H. [223][228], Host Jon Stewart repeatedly mocked McConnell on The Daily Show for his resemblance to a turtle or tortoise. [179] McConnell has supported stronger border security, free trade agreements and reductions in taxes. [157] It passed both houses of Congress with bipartisan support. [183], In 1984, McConnell ran for the U.S. Senate against two-term Democratic incumbent Walter Dee Huddleston. Smith stated that Atta's name had emerged during an examination of individuals known to have ties to Omar Abdel Rahman, a leading figure in the first World Trade Center bombing. I have learned that, in fact, one of our Federal agencies had, in fact, identified the major New York cell of Mohamed Atta prior to 9/11; and I have learned, Mr. Speaker, that in September 2000, that Federal agency actually was prepared to bring the FBI in and prepared to work with the FBI to take down the cell that Mohamed Atta was involved in in New York City, along with two of the other terrorists. He could not describe what information had led to this supposed Atta identification. Oct 2, 2012. Retired from Air National Guard on 22 June, 1993 with final F16 flight on Pearl Harbor Day, 1992. 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. [63], In 2013, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid eliminated the filibuster for all presidential nominations except the Supreme Court. This American politeecian-relatit airticle is a stub. It was impossible to tell which, and the unclassified work of Able Danger was not designed to address that question. [80], Later that day, he described the storming of the Capitol building (which occurred while the Electoral College votes were being counted) as a "failed insurrection" which "tried to disrupt our democracy". [102], On May 28, 2021, McConnell voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Able Danger was a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). McConnell called for Democrats to support a Trump administration-backed measure that included $5.7billion in wall funding, together with a temporary extension of protections for DACA recipients, a Democratic priority. He voted for the Iraq Resolution, which authorized military action against Iraq,[181] and supported the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 in public. [citation needed]. The statement announced the discovery of three other witnesses in addition to Shaffer and Phillpott who confirm Able Danger had produced a chart that "either mentioned Atta by name as an al-Qaeda operative [and/or] showed his photograph." Donald Trump is no longer the president. On the 19th of January 2021 then President Trump, POTUS 45, which is very similar to Isaiah 45 in the Bible, President Trump turned the control of the United States of America over to the Military White Hats 8. The Pentagon describes the witnesses as "credible" but stated that the document which allegedly mentioned Atta could not be found. 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. 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. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy. Analysts had created charts that included pictures of then-known Al Qaeda operatives, but none including Atta. "[89][90], After Trump's acquittal, McConnell was noted for his ability to block witnesses, to secure Trump's acquittal, and to maintain party unity during the impeachment process. The election race was not decided until the last returns came in, when McConnell won by 3,437 votes out of more than 1.2 million votes cast, just over 0.4%. [39][40][41][42] This reputation dimmed after Republicans failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in 2017 during consolidated Republican control of government. [142], From December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019, the federal government was shut down when Congress refused to give in to Trump's demand for $5.7billion in federal funds for a U.S.Mexico border wall. He has criticized proposed legislation by House Democrats such as the Green New Deal and Medicare for All,[178] and was criticized by Nancy Pelosi for withholding votes on measures passed by the Democratic-controlled House during his time as Senate Majority Leader, including the For the People Act of 2019, the Equality Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act. [81], On April 10, 2021, Trump called McConnell a "dumb son of a bitch". Flew DC9, MD80,B727 and CV580 domestically Republic Airlines bought by Northwest Airlines January, 1986. McConnell has opposed stronger regulations, gun control measures and efforts to mitigate climate change. The NIIS printout for the first entry reflects that Atta entered with an admission period of January 10, 2001, to September 8, 2001 (admission number 68653985708). [72], After Joe Biden won the election of 2020 against Donald Trump, McConnell at first refused to recognize Biden as the winner of the election. When voters heard that legislation had been 'defeated', journalists rarely highlighted that this defeat meant a minority had blocked a majority. [217][218] McConnell was inducted as a member of the Sons of the American Revolution on March 1, 2013. [95] McConnell called for delaying the Senate trial until after Joe Biden's inauguration. [23], On August 14, 2005, Mike Kelly, a columnist for The (Bergen) Record (New Jersey), described a telephone interview, arranged by the staff of Rep. Curt Weldon, with a man who identified himself as a member of the Able Danger team, but asked that his name not be revealed. DIA also prevented key personnel from testifying to both the Senate Judiciary and Senate Intelligence Committees, though after numerous denials did admit the program's existence.[10]. [12] He graduated Omicron Delta Kappa from the University of Louisville with a B.A. 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. [194] He faced Democratic Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election, and defeated Grimes, 56.240.7%. Since 2015, she has been dating Eric Hosmer, a professional baseball player. Captain Field McConnell, a former Northwest Airline DC-10 captain and a long time friend of Captain Dan Hanley, retired 9 years early as such because of his exposure of illegal modifications on Boeing aircraft in 2006 so that he could serve as an expert witness in future litigation. After his retirement, he continued his investigation into illegal modification of Boeing aircraft revealing the existence of the Boeing Uninterruptible Auto Pilot prior to 9/11 and the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disasters. 6-min video: "Kristine Marcy Founder of SES Surrenders to Field McConnell". Kevin Drum, writing for The Washington Monthly notes that reports of the precise date at which the information was allegedly passed to the FBI vary considerably. "Based on years of experience I can say categorically that the basis for the revocation was questionable at best. [19], In 2014, McConnell faced Louisville businessman Matt Bevin in the Republican primary. She runs the famous reality show 'The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell'. [175], McConnell has taken conservative stances for the past several decades. [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. She is the "baby" of the family. 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. [129][130] He confirmed 260 federal judges over the course of Trump's four-year term, shifting the federal judiciary to the right. Information regarding her parent's and siblings' occupations, age, and private lives are in the dark. The Department of Defense investigation concluded: Five witnesses who had worked on Able Danger and had been questioned by the Defense Department's Inspector General later told investigative journalists that their statements to the IG were distorted by investigators in the final IG's report, or the report omitted essential information that they had provided. SPACESHOT '76 Bitchute . 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. The Pentagon "ordered five key witnesses not to testify", according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter. Her father is of Irish and Scottish descent and her mother is of Japanese descent, although both sides of the family have lived in the USA for several generations. [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." [41], This assertion was disputed by former senator Slade Gorton (R-WA), a member of the 9-11 Commission, who said, "nothing Jamie Gorelick wrote had the slightest impact on the Department of Defense or its willingness or ability to share intelligence information with other intelligence agencies." [128] By March 2020, McConnell had contacted an unknown number of judges, encouraging them to retire prior to the 2020 election. [197][198] During the campaign, McConnell and McGrath agreed to one hour-long, socially distanced debate on October 12. 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Mitch McConnell looking forward to busy opening session", "No, the government did not pay for Mitch McConnell's polio care. [28] The Defense Department's inspector general (DoD OIG) made a similar conclusion. [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. However, a week later he referred reporters to a recently reconstructed version of the chart in his office where, among dozens of names and photos of terrorists from around the world, there was a color mug shot of Mohammad Atta, circled in black marker. The DOD's Defense Intelligence Agency reviewers identified more than 200 passages suspected of containing classified information. The second record reflects a second entry on January 10, 2001, with an admission period from January 10, 2001, to July 9, 2001 (admission number 10847166009). [201], McConnell is a Southern Baptist, baptized at age 8. [135], In October 2018, McConnell said if a Supreme Court vacancy were to occur during Trump's 2020 re-election year he would not follow his 2016 decision to let the winner of the upcoming presidential election nominate a justice. They were potentially people connected to US persons."[50]. [108], In May 2010, after President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to succeed the retiring John Paul Stevens, McConnell said during a Senate speech that Americans wanted to make sure Kagan would be independent of influence from White House as an associate justice and noted Obama's referring to Kagan as a friend of his in announcing her nomination. 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. After a report came out of Democrats' investigating a second allegation against Kavanaugh, McConnell said, "I want to make it perfectly clear. [31][32] On February 12, 1999, he was one of fifty senators to vote to convict and remove Bill Clinton from office. 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[20][22][23], From 1968 to 1970, McConnell worked as chief legislative assistant to Senator Marlow Cook in Washington, D.C., managing a legislative department consisting of five members as well as assisting with speech writing and constituent services. [37] McConnell is the second Kentuckian to serve as a party leader in the Senate (after Alben W. Barkley led the Democrats from 1937 to 1949)[13] and is the longest-serving U.S. senator from Kentucky in history. Captain McConnell can be credited as the first person on earth to expose this system to all. President Trump tweeted two days later that he was willing to allow a government shutdown to get funding. His time in service has also been the subject of criticism because his discharge was accelerated after his father placed a call to Senator. Denise McConnell was born on December 23, 1958 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. [103], McConnell's relationship with the Biden administration has been portrayed in media as one of comity. @FieldMcConnell. He was re-elected in 1981 against Jefferson County Commissioner Jim "Pop" Malone, 51% to 47%, outspending Malone 31, and occupied this office until his election to the U.S. Senate in 1984. [160] In negotiations between congressional Democrats and White House officials for an additional aid package, McConnell was absent from the talks. Ye can help Wikipaedia bi expandin it This page wis last eeditit on 16 Mey 2018, at 23:33. . [184] McConnell was the only Republican Senate challenger to win that year, despite Ronald Reagan's landslide victory in the presidential election. [2] We're going after the leadership. It is most unlikely that Able Danger would have identified a terrorist called "Mohamed Atta" before May 2000. The record for the number of circuit court judges confirmed during a president's first year was broken in 2017, while the previous two-year record took place under President George H. W. Bush, and included 22 nominations. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Additionally, she is the daughter of Ken McDonnell and Michelle McDonnell and a sister to Isabelle and Lochlan McDonnell. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost. "[49], "unfortunately we are not aware of the continuing existence of any chart containing Mohamed Atta's name or photograph. [citation needed] Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist did not seek re-election in the 2006 elections. 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