Monitoring the Able Danger Congressional Hearings Coverage
LAST UPDATED 2-21-06

MediaChannel.org used the powerful new MediaVision tool to monitor television news coverage of the Able Danger Congressional hearings. To our astonishment CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" was the only news show to give Able Danger any significant coverage.

We were so shocked by the lack of coverage that we created an online campaign to try to pressure TV news networks to cover, as Lou Dobbs put it, "what could be the biggest scandal of our lifetime." Click here to send networks an email demanding coverage!

So, sadly, here it is. All the TV coverage we could find thus far:

Newly Added Clips:

Clip 8:
Fox News: Curt Weldon Interviewed
191 seconds

"They want to make this about one chart and this is not about any chart, it's about massive amounts of information and hits that they had before 9/11." -- Congressman Curt Weldon

__ Fox News <Watch Clip>

Clip 9:
CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight: Peter Lance Able Danger Interview
354 seconds

"I'm encouraged by Congressman Weldon's tenacity, but frankly, I think he was betrayed by his own committee, frankly. I think the fact that so much of the hearing was held in closed session, why should Philip Zelikow, the chairman of the 9/11 commission, have to testify in closed session?" -- Peter Lance

__ CNN <Watch Clip>

Clip 10:
National Security Whistleblower Hearing: Shaffer's Testimony
491 seconds

"I became a whistleblower not out of choice, but out of necessity. A necessity to tell the truth."

__ C-SPAN <Watch Clip>

Clip 11:
National Security Whistleblower Hearing:
Weldon Questions Shaffer
756 seconds

Weldon: Dr. Zelikow said he never met you. What do you say to that? You're under oath right now.

Shaffer: Yes, sir. I did meet with him.... I find it hard to believe that he could not remember meeting me."

__ C-SPAN <Watch Clip>

Previous Clips

Clip 1:
C-SPAN: Washington Journal
334 seconds

Congressman Weldon was on C-SPAN to talk about military spending the morning before the Able Danger hearings. As you will see, the 1st caller is much more interested in talking about Able Danger.

__ C-SPAN <Watch Clip>

Clip 2:
CNN: Lou Dobbs Tonight Able Danger Preview
19 seconds

"What could be the biggest scandal of our lifetime." -- Lou Dobbs

__CNN <Watch Clip>

Clip 3:
CNN: Lou Dobbs Tonight
205 seconds

Lou Dobbs: "Congress today held unprecedented hearings into the top-secret Army intelligence program code named Able Danger. Able Danger officials, finally, were able to tell their story in open hearings this afternoon about how they identified 9/11 radical Islamist terrorists and how their findings were ignored by officials who could have prevented, they say, 9/11."

__CNN <Watch Clip>

Clip 4:
CNN: Lou Dobbs Tonight
409 seconds

Congressman Weldon on "Lou Dobbs Tonight."

_CNN <Watch Clip>

Clip 5:
CNN: Lou Dobbs Tonight
386 seconds

Lou Dobbs talks with Tim Roemer, a former member of the 9/11 Commission.

_CNN <Watch Clip>

Clip 6:
Fox News: Fox and Friends
140 seconds

Colonel David Hunt discussed the Able Danger hearings briefly on the morning program "Fox and Friends."

_Fox <Watch Clip>

Clip 7:
C-SPAN: Washington Journal
109 seconds

A C-SPAN caller complains about C-SPAN not covering the hearings.

_C-SPAN<Watch Clip>





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