Caesar claimed that the local tribes there had executed their most serious criminals by burning them alive in a huge man-shaped sculpture of woven twigs ; to Shaffer, this was " the most alarming and imposing image that had ever seen ".

Jones later claimed partial Cherokee ancestry through his mother, though this was likely to have been false according to his maternal second cousin Barbara Shaffer.

When it was finally agreed upon that Paul Shaffer would perform " Jump ", Roth claimed that there was no longer enough time to rehearse and opted not to attend the ceremony.

These allegations are claimed to have been pursued in bad faith & breach of process, in relation for Shaffer talking to the 9 / 11 Commission.

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, 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.

Shaffer reportedly told Zelikow that DIA leadership declined to share this information with the FBI because military lawyers expressed concerns about the legality of doing so.

On September 29, 2005, Shaffer made a major contribution to Lakehead University to dedicate the fifth floor ATAC boardroom to his father Bernard Shaffer, inaugural member of the Board of Governors.

Colonel Anthony Shaffer and the other four Able Danger employees at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September 2005, pointed out to the Committee that his clients had been forbidden by the Pentagon to testify to the Committee.

Peña and his wife Brie Shaffer welcomed their first child in September 2008, a boy named Roman.

Anthony Shaffer ( born 1962 ) is a U. S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who gained fame for his claims about mishandled intelligence before the September 11 attacks and for the censoring of his book, Operation Dark Heart.

In October 2003, according to his later statement to Congress, Shaffer told the 9 / 11 Commission staff director, Dr. Philip D. Zelikow, that in 2000 a DIA data-mining program known as Able Danger had uncovered two of the three terrorist cells eventually implicated in the September 11 attacks.

In 2005, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Congressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger identified Mihdhar, Hazmi, Shehhi and Atta as members of a Brooklyn-based al-Qaeda cell in early 2000.

Shaffer has also guest-hosted the show a few times when Letterman was unavailable, including during Letterman's January 2000 medical leave for quintuple heart bypass surgery, and during the birth of Letterman's son Harry in November 2003.

Shaffer has appeared in a number of motion pictures over the years, including a small role ( Artie Fufkin of Polymer Records ) in Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers 2000, a scene with Miles Davis in the Bill Murray film Scrooged and as a passenger in John Travolta's taxicab in Look Who's Talking Too.

One example was in 1998 when Shaffer traveled to Canada to film his cameo in Blues Brothers 2000.

However, Shaffer appears in Blues Brothers 2000.

Shaffer specifically states that in Jan 2000, Able Danger data-mining revealed the existence of a ' Brooklyn ' Al-Qaeda cell connected to the " Blind Sheik " Omar Abdel-Rahman ; as well as two other cells overseas.

E. Lee Spence, a pioneer underwater archaeologist and prolific author of books and articles about shipwrecks and sunken treasure discovered, with the help of Isle of Palms residents Wally Shaffer and George Campsen Esq., many shipwrecks along the shores of the Isle of Palms in the 1960s.

So, Shaffer set about composing the play.

" In particular, Shaffer would recall vividly one specific audience member, " an enormously fat man in front of me, who hadn ’ t laughed once, he was the only man in the theatre, I think, who wasn ’ t laughing, and I decided that if he disliked it, it was a failure -- I didn ’ t know who he was, just that he was in my eye line, and if he liked it it was a success, you know how rational one can be — suddenly laughed like ... a volcano about to erupt, and he fell in the aisle and began to crawl towards the stage ... sobbing with laughter — and calling out to the actors — this was on the first night — crawling down among the knees of the critics and all that saying, “ Oh stop it, please stop it, please stop it!

Lt. Col Tony Shaffer also reported that the DOD has retaliated against him for speaking out publicly about the IG report's distortions.

With a scheduled release of August 31, 2010, Operation Dark Heart, by Anthony A. Shaffer, includes memories of his time reporting to the 9 / 11 commission about Able Danger's findings.

* Ex-US spy Anthony Shaffer talks about his posting in Afghanistan as an undercover agent on The State We're In ( radio ) radio show, January 2011

On August 27, 2004 Shaffer complained that she was not being provided with information she needed for her defense of Qosi, that Qosi had informed her that the quality of translation at his military commission was insufficient for him to understand what was happening.

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.

Speaking on behalf of Lt. Col Shaffer, attorney Mark Zaid testified " Those within Able Danger were confident they weren't compiling information on US persons.

In the opera, Salieri attempts to poison an anachronistic Shaffer but is bumped by a " clumsy oaf ", which causes him to inadvertently poison Mozart instead and spill wine on his favorite coat.

* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ( 2008 ) by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows is written as a series of letters and telegraphs sent and received by the protagonist.

The first significant post-Led Zeppelin project was The Honeydrippers, formed in 1981 by Robert Plant and featuring Jimmy Page on lead guitar, along with studio musicians and friends of Plant and Page, including Jeff Beck, Paul Shaffer, and Nile Rodgers.

Directed by Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer, 1979.

Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer, which gives a highly fictionalized account of the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.

The play was adapted by Shaffer for the 1984 film of the same name.

The Wicker Man is a 1973 British horror film, directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer.

Pop music was the focus of June 7, with Paul Shaffer hosting performances by Art Garfunkel, Bruce Hornsby, k. d.

However, this view has been attacked by Jonathan Shaffer, who has argued that truthmaking is not an adequate test for ontological commitment: at best, the search for the truthmakers of our theory will tell us what is " fundamental ", but not what our theory is ontologically committed to, and hence will not serve as a good way of deciding what exists.

In 1979, shortly before Radner began her final season on Saturday Night Live, her Broadway show was filmed by Mike Nichols under the title Gilda Live !, co-starring Paul Shaffer and Don Novello, and was released to theaters nationwide in 1980 with poor results.

The game is mentioned in the 1972 film version the play Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer, when the character Andrew Wyke refers to " an intensely complicated 4th dynasty blocking game called Senet.

During 1989, Perkins also signed a record deal with Platinum Records LTD for an album with the title Friends, Family, and Legends, featuring performances by Chet Atkins, Travis Tritt, Steve Wariner, Joan Jett and Charlie Daniels, along with Paul Shaffer and Will Lee.

The monologue is followed by Letterman's introduction of Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra.

As a child, Shaffer had lessons on the piano, and moved on to playing the organ by his teenage years, in a band ( Fabulous Fugitives ) with his schoolmates in Thunder Bay.

Shaffer has released two solo albums, 1989's Grammy-nominated Coast to Coast, and 1993's The World's Most Dangerous Party, produced by rock icon Todd Rundgren.

In 1977, Shaffer left SNL for a few months to co-star with Greg Evigan in A Year at the Top, a short-lived CBS sitcom in which Shaffer and Evigan play two musicians from Idaho who relocate to Hollywood where they are regularly tempted by a famous promoter ( who is actually the devil's son ), played by Gabriel Dell, to sell their souls in exchange for a year of stardom.

That year, SNL parodied the Troggs Tapes with a medieval musical sketch featuring Shaffer, Bill Murray, Harry Shearer, and a " special guest appearance " by John Belushi ( who had left the show the previous spring ).

Shaffer recorded the famous synthesizer solo in the 1982 hit " Goodbye to You " by the band Scandal.

He has been featured in Who's Who in Music and appeared on a compilation album by Paul Shaffer of the David Letterman band, and also on rock group The Black Crowes ' 1996 album Three Snakes and One Charm.