'Able Danger' Stopped From Informing FBI (Now it is on AP)

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Sept-11-Hijackers.html

ugust 17, 2005
'Able Danger' Stopped From Informing FBI
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 8:08 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Army intelligence officer said Wednesday he does not believe the 9/11 commission pressed hard enough for documentation of claims that military intelligence found a U.S.-based terrorist cell that included Mohamed Atta, who turned out to be the leader of the Sept. 11 attacks, prior to the terrorist strikes.

''I don't believe they ever got all the documents, but then again I don't think that they pressed properly to get all of the documents,'' Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer said on CBS' ''The Early Show.''

He says he was associated with a small intelligence unit, called ''Able Danger,'' that had identified Atta and three of the other future Sept. 11 hijackers as al-Qaida members by mid-2000.

..more at link

[gman16]

1. More evidence

that 911 was allowed to happen by our own Government.
The ultimate act of Treason.

[chelsea0011]

2. This is becoming an interesting story. Rep. Weldon did his

best earlier in the week to blame Clinton, but Lt. Col. Shaffer says the 9-11 Commission didn't seem to want to follow through with the claims of Atta being identified early on. Why? Could it be that the Bush administration would have to explain why Atta was here for none year and no one followed through? I'd like to know who on the commission was given the info of Atta and sat on it.

[maxrandb]

3. Ahem..Two Questions to Shut-up the Clenis Blamers

One: Who was pretzledent on September the 11TH, 2001.

Two: Did I miss something, or was Bill Clinton still on the distribution list for Presidential Daily Briefings on August the 6TH, 2001.

[gman16]

5. I don't think we need

any more evidence that supports the facts that the leads that were followed by field personnel were ignored by management, be it the CIA, FBI, DOD, or the military. I can understand one agency blocking investigations, but all of them at or around the same time?
Clearly, someone gave the order from the top to ignore and obstruct any leads that might shed light on what was to happen in September 2001.

[bearfan454]

9. I think we need to do exactly that.

Scream it from the rooftops. Bush let our nation get attacked on purpose. BUSH KNEW ! BUSH LET IT HAPPEN ON PURPOSE !!!!! LIHOP.

[underpants]

7. Was this report still around once W took office?

Just wondering. Seems no one in the media has asked that question (or have been allowed to).

[ChrisK]

4. Why does Lt. Col.Shaffer hate freedom?

I have a feeling that that will be the question on many minds on the right as soon as they see his comments.

What really gets me is the folks on the right we're what I called the "Question bragad"..all they did was ask "why" when it was the Democrats in charge but the minute a Republican is calling the shots they seem to have forgotten their "need to know"....What happened?

No one, hard-left or right should be so blind...we ALL need to be leary of whats happening when ANYONE is in charge..no matter how much you like them, always ask "why"...just to be sure, before its too late.

[wakeme2008]

6. now cnn

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/17/sept.11.hijackers/index.html

[havocmom]

8. Tin foil, it's not just for crazies anymore.

Most people should realize by now that lives are not a consideration to the neocons and PNACers who have subverted the Constitution, assured the murder of tens of thousands of innocents in Iraq, raided the US Treasury and made laws of, for and by corporations. It would be shortsighted to assume anything is beyond them as they usurp what was once America.

[NNN0LHI]

10. I seen a Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer interview on CNN today

The boy struck me as someone whose elevator doesn't quite make it to the top floor. Just saying.

Don

[KeepItReal]

11. Was not Gen Tommy Franks *running* Special Operations Command then??

They said the terrorist info never left that organization.

Correct?

[wakeme2008]

14. Yes Tommy, I'll look for bin forgotten in Iraq, was in charge

of that command at the time. :grr:

[wli]

12. I'm skeptical

Sounds to me more like Atta was an agent of another govt. organization.

[StrafingMoose]

13. Probably an agent for...

the agency who wired him 100,000$ the day before 9/11...

[LeftHander]

15. NSA

The "No Such Agency"

You want secrets...now that is a secret hands in the pudding organization. Nobody seems to mention these guys much when it comes to 911...

Where the hell were they?

Organizing it?

[wli]

16. doubtful; IIRC they're dedicated to data collection

The DIA and ONI are better guesses for black ops, but the CIA is not entirely out of the question esp. given the ISI payoff.

[fshrink]

17. Probably another battle not worth fighting.

[sattahipdeep]

18. Why is there nothing about bushite where-a-bouts?

A former member of the Commission, Richard Ben-Veniste, the former Watergate
prosecutor, yesterday called on the Pentagon hand over all the information that the
Army possessed about Atta and the other hijackers.

"If these assertions are credible," said Mr Ben-Veniste, "the Pentagon would need to
explain why it was that the 9/11 commissioners were not provided this information
despite requests for all information regarding Able Danger."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1739204,00.html

[OregonBlue]

19. Illegal data-mining probably reason for cover-up

The most obvious reason no one (dems or repubs) wants this out there is that the military was collecting data on U.S. citizens and legal residents. The reference is to "data mining" from supposedly public sources that exposed these guys. My bet is that it was not just public data but many other, illegal sources that were being mined and no one wants that to come to light.