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2005-10-05 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by .com 2005-10-05 03:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Close door = no public attention. The enemies of the United States are just not bomb carrying fanatics. There are those within our own government for whom power, non-accountability, and invisibility are just as dangerous to our lives and our Constitution. And its not about National Security, its about POWER.

Posted by Javirt Thrusing6823 2005-10-05 08:41|| 2005-10-05 08:41|| Front Page Top

#2 "...innocent explanation: A Pentagon policy to protect privacy dictates that intelligence information on U.S. citizens be destroyed after 90 days unless the data has law-enforcement value."

Innocent explanation?

Am I missing something here? (I often do)

Who were the US citizens? What were their associations with potential, if not known, terrorists? And how could this not have any law-enforcement value?

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-10-05 11:55|| 2005-10-05 11:55|| Front Page Top

#3 let Sandy Burglar hold all the documents for safekeeping again?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-05 12:39|| 2005-10-05 12:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Able Danger used data mining to identify people who had the characteristics of known terrorists. At that point the crime had not been committed. Therefore, the data could not have had law enforcement value. The database would have contained vast amounts of data on US citizens.

Arguably, the results, i.e. the identification of Atta (and other non-US citizens) could have been retained, but I suspect becuase those results were derived using data on US citizens, a lawyer concluded the results must be destroyed.

Posted by phil_b 2005-10-05 17:41|| 2005-10-05 17:41|| Front Page Top

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