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| Able Danger - Data-mining, Atta, and a Blue Dress |
| 2005-12-08 |
| Posted by:Bernie |
| #5 “It was shut down in a matter of hours. The colonel said our service was no longer needed and told me: ‘You just ended my career.’” |
| Posted by: KBK 2005-12-08 13:54 |
| #4 After briefing the CIAâs representative stationed at SOCOM headquarters, and explaining that Able Danger would not be competing with the CIAâs own separate mission to find and kill Osama bin Laden, Shaffer was surprised by the CIA repâs stern resistance to sharing any information, said Shaffer. âI clearly understand the difference,â the CIA rep told him, according to Shaffer. âI clearly understand. Weâre going after the leadership. You guys are going after the body. But, it doesnât matter. The bottom line is, CIA will never give you the best information from âAlex Baseâ or anywhere else. CIA will never provide that to you because if you were successful in your effort to target Al Qaeda, you will steal our thunder. Therefore, we will not support this.â Right here ladies and gentlemen is precisely what it is about at the national agency level, ie.,"stealing thunder." Which means in the end, less budget for the OGA and more budget for DoD. Painfully uncomplicated. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-12-08 08:29 |
| #3 What? Corruption in the Clinton administration? That's about as surprising as a run on milk and bread in the lead-up to tonight's winter storm. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-12-08 07:46 |
| #2 hmmm. Do I detect a note of if the conservatives hadn't tried to impeach Clinton, none of this would have happened? Perhaps I'm being hypersensitive. I had a different thought when I was reading it. That it was scuttled because not only because it brought up high profile names that could be explained with innocent connections - but that it was bringing up high profile names that would have some serious splaining to do. Maybe some admin officials had much more to fear than just a perception problem. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-12-08 00:35 |
| #1 The money quote: Able Danger was working to identify Al Qaeda and had struck gold with the Hamburg cell. But the same technology and group, working on a completely independent study implicates the Clinton administration so all the data, China and Al Qaeda targets, is destroyed in a moment of political panic. It is now highly possible 9-11 happened because the Clinton administration was afraid of bad PR. This guy knows what he is talking about. The Kevin Bacon Game. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-12-08 00:33 |