Mohammed Atta's innocent twin

Mickey Kaus vets a theory of Tom Maquire's that there were two Mohammed Attas, which would explain why Able Danger found him through datamining of public databases and also why the Pentagon didn't want to give it to the justice department:

3) Q: Why was the Defense department so skittish about passing on Atta's name.

A. That's understandable if, as Maguire asserts, the first, "Abu Nidal" Atta was a naturalized U.S. citizen. Pentagon spying on U.S. citizens was of questionable legality.

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