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2005-12-10 Home Front: WoT

Able Danger shows promise and shortcomings of data mining

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-12-10 01:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "There are still those who want to train analysts on how the engine of the car works instead of how to drive the car."

Yep!

A good article only slightly spoiled by the fact the writer has no clue how data mining works, but then he's probably pretty vague on how his car works as well.

I'm curious to see if this has legs. Since Able Danger could clearly have stopped 9/11 and could be used to identify terrorists currently in the USA and other places.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2005-12-10 06:21|| 2005-12-10 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 good article but..This part ticks me off:

The experiment "went well," the former IDC employee said. "Unfortunately, it went too well." During construction of those link diagrams, the names of a number of U.S. citizens popped up, including some very prominent figures.

I'm not one to know, but this line of reasoning strikes me as utter BS. Do we not pick up names of US citizens in ANY intelligence we receive? Are you telling me that when intelligence reports are written today - it scrubs any mention of a visit by Rice or 7 steps to Clinton?

I think if you dig a bit further, what we will find is that the information about US information transfers to China got too close to some very prominent US citizens and so now we get the watered down example that it also pulled up Condi and Hillary. Yeah, ok. But somehow I think traditional intelligence does the same thing. IMHO, Condi and Hillary are just red herrings to ignore the fact that their connections pulled up some real and significant information regarding US citizens who were spying on the US....which created the problem that the military had been spying on US citizens.

Posted by 2b 2005-12-10 13:48|| 2005-12-10 13:48|| Front Page Top

#3 It seems the China connections created too many embarrassing links to the BJ Clinton Administration.

Posted by doc 2005-12-10 18:57|| 2005-12-10 18:57|| Front Page Top

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