"[56], In 2012, McConnell proposed a measure allowing President Obama to raise the debt ceiling, hoping some Democratic senators would oppose the measure, thus demonstrating disunity among Democrats. [43] Snopes.com clarified a widely circulated email that claimed the two Attas were one and the same. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost. We plan, design, permit, construct and manage facilities with one mission in mind: Make our clients successful. After a report came out of Democrats' investigating a second allegation against Kavanaugh, McConnell said, "I want to make it perfectly clear. [221] His personal wealth was increased after receiving a 2008 personal gift to him and his wife, given by his father-in-law James S. C. Chao after the death of McConnell's mother-in-law, whose value has been estimated to be $525million. [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". "[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. [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. Additionally, she is the daughter of Ken McDonnell and Michelle McDonnell and a sister to Isabelle and Lochlan McDonnell. Christine McConnell is an American baker, designer, model, host, influencer, photographer, reality star, and actress. steemit.com/steempress/@abeldangerlive/fieldmcconnelltorefile911lawsuit, BITCOIN ADDRESS: SHOW NOTES: Congressman Weldon also claims the report was a hurried, botched up investigation that was intended to close the books on the subject rather than report on the facts. Reasons cited for McConnell's opposition to the nickname include "a longstanding resistance to federal, Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, convict and remove Bill Clinton from office, efforts of Trump and his allies to overturn the election, Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies, Donald Trump judicial appointment controversies, confirmations during a president's first two years, Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Subcommittee on Rural Revitalization, Conservation, Forestry, and Credit, Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing, Inspection, and Plant and Animal Health, Subcommittee on Hunger, Nutrition and Family Farms, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans' Affairs, and Related Agencies, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, 1984 United States Senate election in Kentucky, 1990 United States Senate election in Kentucky, 1996 United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2002 United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2008 United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2014 United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky, Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, "About Mitch McConnell | Republican Leader", "McConnell says Trump was "practically and morally responsible" for riot after voting not guilty", "Mitch McConnell: The 100 Most Influential People of 2019", "Athens native Sen. Mitch McConnell looking forward to busy opening session", "No, the government did not pay for Mitch McConnell's polio care. "[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. Information regarding her parent's and siblings' occupations, age, and private lives are in the dark. Aside from acting, she earns a decent amount of money through guest appearances, shows, reservations, and affiliate marketing. [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. [4], Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers, Comments by members of the Able Danger team, An example of a chart produced as output by the project's data mining and visualization suite is called the. Sources inside the store said Atta may have held a BJ's membership card for more than two years."[48]. Later that day, McConnell told the media: "I'm not an impartial juror [in this impeachment trial]. The destruction of these files is an important element to this story and I encourage the Committee to investigate it further. [74][76][77] At the same time that McConnell refused to recognize Biden, he did celebrate Republicans who won their races in the Senate and the House in the same elections.[74][76][78]. [194] He faced Democratic Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election, and defeated Grimes, 56.240.7%. [202] He was married to his first wife, Sherrill Redmon, from 1968 to 1980 and had three daughters, Porter, Eleanor (Elly), and Claire. [210], In May 2019, McConnell's brother-in-law Gordon Hartogensis, who is married to Chao's sister Grace, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), a part of the Labor Department. Did he ever say thank you? Weldon called the activities "a deliberate campaign of character assassination. 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. A member of the Republican Party, he is the Minority Leader of the Senate, succeeding Chuck Schumer. "That looks to me as if it may be obstruction of the committee's activities", Specter, R-Pennsylvania, said at the start of his committee's hearing into the unit. The information was omitted primarily because they found it to be suspect despite having been briefed on it two times by two different military officers on active duty. [47] McConnell has received criticism for funding "temporary patches" to Kentucky's long-term healthcare problems, while simultaneously opposing and obstructing national programs that seek to improve healthcare more systematically, such as Obamacare and Medicaid expansion. [3], McConnell is married to former secretary of transportation and former secretary of labor Elaine Chao. [31][32] On February 12, 1999, he was one of fifty senators to vote to convict and remove Bill Clinton from office. She is known for Zombie Army (1991). We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Analysts had created charts that included pictures of then-known Al Qaeda operatives, but none including Atta. 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). [206][207], Following her divorce from McConnell, Sherrill became a feminist scholar at Smith College and director of the Sophia Smith Collection. Cthulhu is Hard to Spell: The Terrible Twos. 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When voters heard that legislation had been 'defeated', journalists rarely highlighted that this defeat meant a minority had blocked a majority. [222], McConnell's detractors have called him by a number of nicknames, including "Moscow Mitch",[223] "Cocaine Mitch",[223] the "Grim Reaper",[178] "Darth Vader",[224] "Rich Mitch",[225] "Nuclear Mitch",[224] "Midnight Mitch",[226] and "Old Crow". [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. 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? By that time, nearly half of all votes to invoke cloture in the history of the Senate had occurred during Obama's presidency. It is most unlikely that Able Danger would have identified a terrorist called "Mohamed Atta" before May 2000. [197][198] During the campaign, McConnell and McGrath agreed to one hour-long, socially distanced debate on October 12. He is currently on sabbatical due to the ongoing conflicts between the FIB and UPD. 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]. Barrett was confirmed on October 26, 2020. The 9/11 Commission has released multiple statements over the past week, each of which has significantly changed from initially denying ever being briefed to acknowledging being briefed on both operation ABLE DANGER and Mohamed Atta. Flew B727, DC10 and A320 domestic and international flights. President Trump tweeted two days later that he was willing to allow a government shutdown to get funding. "[51], Former Army Major Erik Kleinsmith, former head of the Pentagon's Land Warfare Analysis Department, testified at the hearing that he had been instructed to destroy data and documents related to Able Danger in May and June 2000. [229][230] McConnell has been portrayed by Beck Bennett in various sketches on Saturday Night Live. She has two siblings - Isabelle McDonnell and Lochlan McDonnell. [118], In an August 2016 speech in Kentucky, McConnell made reference to the Garland nomination, saying that "one of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. "[132] Kavanaugh was confirmed on October 6. McconnellRet's net worth is $150,000 (estimated). [223][228], Host Jon Stewart repeatedly mocked McConnell on The Daily Show for his resemblance to a turtle or tortoise. "[18], On August 12, 2005, Hamilton and former 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean issued a statement in response to media inquiries about the commission's investigation of the Able Danger program. 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. [166] McConnell called the bill a choice between "do[ing] something" and "do[ing] nothing",[167] and said he was holding the procedural vote to get lawmakers on the record about their willingness to compromise on COVID-19 legislation. 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. [17][21] Over time he shifted to the right and became more conservative. We're going after the leadership. Trump threatened a shutdown two days later", "Senate approves sweeping bill on defense, domestic spending", "McConnell knocks Dems for rejecting Trump's 'reasonable request' on border", "McConnell suggests shutdown could last for weeks", "McConnell keeps his head down as government shutdown drags on", "Senate Democrats pushed a vote to reopen the government. He could not describe what information had led to this supposed Atta identification. '"[119][120] In April 2018, McConnell said the decision not to act upon the Garland nomination was "the most consequential decision I've made in my entire public career". Laura Mae November 4, 2021, 9:26 am 32. He voted for the Iraq Resolution, which authorized military action against Iraq,[181] and supported the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 in public. [5][6], The program used data mining techniques to associate open source information with classified information in an attempt to make connections among individual members of terrorist groups as part of its original "intelligence preparation of the battlespace". [189], In 2002, he was unopposed in the Republican primary. Those associations could have been completely innocuous or nefarious. MARTIAL LAW, CONTROL GIVEN TO MILITARY BY TRUMP JAN 19TH. [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? [105] In June 2009, following President Obama's nominating Sonia Sotomayor as Associate Justice, McConnell and Jeff Sessions opined that Sotomayor's seventeen years as a federal judge and over 3,600 judicial opinions would require lengthy review and advocated against Democrats hastening the confirmation process. In response, McConnell cited the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court to show that the Senate was supportive of Trump's agenda. "There were two sets, classified and unclassified, and also an 'all sorts,'" which contained a blend of the two, "plus charts we'd produced." Entry below posted on November 8, 2019: Note from an AIM Patriot: Second call just made. [45], However, Shaffer clarified that. [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. [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. The existence of Able Danger, and its purported early identification of the 9/11 terrorists, was first disclosed publicly on June 19, 2005, in an article[11] by Keith Phucas, a reporter for The Times Herald, a Norristown, Pennsylvania, daily newspaper. [4], The independent film Able Danger was released in 2008. [1], Attorney Mark Zaid, representing Lt. McConnell accused Democrats of creating an "extreme" distortion of Kavanaugh's record during his hearing process. [37], The Defense Department announced its findings on September 1, 2005, after a three-week investigation into Able Danger. Wells podcast that the United States is under white hat martial law. During his Senate tenure, McConnell led opposition to stricter campaign finance laws,[176] culminating in the Supreme Court ruling that partially overturned the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold) in 2010. [211][212][213][214] McConnell voted to confirm. Captain Charles 'Chic' Burlingame of American Airlines Flight 77 was his college classmate. [20] This was a coveted position because the Reserve units were mostly kept out of combat during the Vietnam War. [109] McConnell announced his opposition to Kagan's confirmation, saying she was not forthcoming enough about her "views on basic principles of American constitutional law". ", The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell, "Chapter Four: You can start too late, but never too soon", "Senator's pet issue: money and the power it buys", "Mitch McConnell's 30-Year Senate Legacy Leaves Kentucky In The Lurch", "Ford Picks Thornburgh to Head Criminal Division", "Register, Department of Justice and the Courts of the United States", "Party polarization america war over two social contracts", "Mitch McConnell, America's No. [4], The Senate panel of investigators said there was no evidence DoD lawyers stopped analysts from sharing findings with the FBI before the attacks. 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