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	FOXNews.com - Third Source Backs 'Able Danger' Claims About Atta - Politics \| Republican Party \| Democratic Party \| ...
		Two sources familiar with Able Danger told FOX News that part of its investigative work focused on mosques and the religious ties between known terrorist operatives such as Omar Abdul Rahman (search), who was part of the first World Trade Center bombing plot in 1993.
		Smith said Able Danger used data mining techniques — publicly available information — to look at mosques and religious ties and it was, in part, through the investigation of Rahman that Atta's name surfaced.
		One of the central Able Danger claims — that military lawyers blocked the sharing of the Atta information from the FBI in the late summer and early fall of 2000 —; will be a focus of the committee if a hearing takes place, FOX News has confirmed.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,167130,00.html (1242 words)

	Able Danger Blog: Lt. Col. Shaffer's written testimony
		And, more importantly, the ABLE DANGER team had put together, using the amalgam of both open source and classified databases specific operational “options” to offensively target and disrupt the larger, global Al Qaeda structure; offensive options that were prepared and briefed to GEN Shelton in January of 2001.
		ABLE DANGER had the ability to target this adversary preemptively, and it is my judgment, if fully implemented, we could have negated, disrupted, detected and potentially have prevented the 9-11 attacks.
		ABLE DANGER was his concept – his idea – to take an out of the box group of military planners, intelligence officers and operators, give them a clear mission, and set them loose to “do good things”.
	www.abledangerblog.com /2006/02/lt-col-shaffers-written-testimony.html (8497 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Able Danger's Hidden Hand by Jack Kelly
		Able Danger was a military intelligence unit set up by Special Operations Command in 1999.
		What may be a bigger scandal is that the staff of the September 11 Commission knew of Able Danger and what it had found, but made no mention of it in its report.
		After having first denied that staff had been briefed on Able Danger, commission spokesman Al Felzenberg said no reference was made to it in the final report because "it was not consistent with what the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts before the attacks," the AP reported.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19146 (763 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Writing on "The Wall" by Thomas Ryan
		The Commission's refusal to investigate Able Danger after being notified of its existence, and its recent efforts to feign ignorance of the project while blaming others for supposedly withholding information on it, brings shame on the commissioners, and is evocative of the worst tendencies in the federal government that the Commission worked to expose.
		Able Danger’s intelligence on Atta was dismissed not only in 2000, but was ignored a second time in 2003 by the 9/11 Commission.
		A second possibility is that any reference to the Able Danger intelligence was omitted (from the 9/11 Commission report) because it seemed to suggest that Iraq was somehow involved in planning or funding the 9/11 attacks.
	frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19218 (2557 words)

	SoCalPundit - Conservative News & Views from Southern California » Able Danger
		Able Danger was a prototype demonstration to show the power of data mining tools which had the fortunate, or unfortunate, result of paying off big early.
		I am further convinced “Able Danger” and the recent spying exposed at the NSA are brother and sister programs by the fact that The Pentagon was so unwilling to talk about “Able Danger”, they must have had a more advanced version they did not want anyone (outside some Congressional oversight) to know about.
		Specifically, Able Danger concluded in February 2000 that military experts had identified Mohamed Atta by name (and maybe photograph) as an al Qaeda agent operating in the U.S. Subsequently, military officers assigned to Able Danger were prevented from sharing this critical information with FBI agents, even though appointments had been made to do so.
	socalpundit.com /blog/index.php/category/able-danger (6374 words)

	Media is a Plural » Blog Archive » Able Danger Twenty Questions
		There were specific individuals and activities, which Able Danger could pursue, such as information relating to the attack on the USS Cole in October 2000, and the Able Danger team did provide the specific details of the threat days before the attack on the Cole.
		The Able Danger effort culminated in a two-hour briefing to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which General Shelton now publicly acknowledges he received in January of 2001.
		The Able Danger team was disbanded despite the best efforts of the team to continue the work and push to implement the offensive “options” that were derived from the intelligence information.
	www.roryoconnor.org /blog/index.php?p=157 (2672 words)

	Able Danger
		Atta was identified by Able Danger by January-February of 2000.
		Able Danger's purpose was to ''characterize the al-Qaida network,'' Chope said, and determine the terror network's vulnerabilities and linkages at a time when U.S. officials were unaware that al-Qaida members were operating inside the United States.
		When members of Able Danger made their presentation at command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Weldon said, the legal team "put stickies on the faces of Mohammed Atta on the chart," to reinforce that he was off-limits.
	summeroftruth.org /atta2.html (19235 words)

	Roger L. Simon: "Able Danger"...
		The hard facts are this: we are fighting an able and cunning enemy, and they are going to succeed and we are going to take casualties because of their ability and their cunning.
		Able Danger is an ongoing intelligence operation - therefore its existance would be hidden or minimized by the authors of the 9/11 report.
		The Able Danger issue will progress and hopefully, all who are reponsible for the mishaps will be accounted for and held as accountable, that is unless I am being naive.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/08/able_danger.php (4544 words)

	The Raw Story \| Support grows in Congress to allow testimony from 'Able Danger' on pre-9/11 intelligence
		Able Danger, an open-source data-mining operation charged with identifying and targeting members of Al-Qaeda, was created in October 1999 upon the request of then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton.
		Weldon expressed outrage at the Commission's failure to examine Able Danger at a press conference last Friday insisting that "there was a deliberate attempt to not have their story told to the American people.
		Until this point, congressional efforts to investigate ABLE DANGER have been obstructed by Department of Defense insistence that certain individuals with knowledge of ABLE DANGER be prevented from freely and frankly testifying in an open hearing.
	rawstory.com /news/2005/Support_grows_in_Congress_to_allow_1117.html (1255 words)

	Able Danger - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Able Danger was "established by the Special Operations Command in 1999 by Gen. Hugh Shelton, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," The Raw Story reported August 18, 2005.
		"In the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able Danger, prepared a chart that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to the military's Special Operations Command that the information be shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation," Weldon told the New York Times, August 15, 2005.
		Atta was identified by Able Danger in January/February 2000.'"
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Able_Danger (2562 words)

	Able Danger Information, 9/11
		Note: Though Able Danger received wide media coverage when it first came out six months ago, CNN was the only major media outlet to give significant coverage to this most important news.
		Congressional efforts to investigate ABLE DANGER have been obstructed by Department of Defense insistence that certain individuals with knowledge of ABLE DANGER be prevented from freely and frankly testifying in an open hearing.
		Specifically, Able Danger concluded in February 2000 that military experts had identified Mohamed Atta by name...as an al Qaeda agent operating in the U.S. Subsequently, military officers assigned to Able Danger were prevented from sharing this critical information with FBI agents.
	www.wanttoknow.info /abledanger911 (3444 words)

	Edward Jay Epstein's Web Log: Able Danger
		According to these witnesses, Able Danger had found Atta via "data mining." Smith says "I am absolutely positive that he [Atta] was on our chart among other pictures and ties that we were doing mainly based upon [terror] cells in New York City," Smith said.
		Smith said Able Danger's photo of Atta was obtained from overseas." It is possible Atta could have been located by only the cross-referencing of non-classified data.
		Then, Able Danger could check the address both men used on their visa application, 54 Marienstrasse in Hamburg, and this could match the address given by other al-Qaeda suspects.
	edjayepstein.blogspot.com /2005/08/able-danger.html (607 words)

	The Pink Flamingo Bar Grill: Why the Able Danger story is important and why we must insist on an investigation!
		The Able Danger story was brought to light not by Lt. Col Shaffer but by Congressman Curt Weldon who has served in the House since 1987.
		Able Danger by itself is explosive in that it has the potential to destroy most of the credibility of the 9/11 Commission especially in the crucial areas of the Atta timelines.
		In addition to the explosive nature of the ABLE DANGER reports, the implications of incompetence inside of our intelligence apparatus and the refusal to correct the biggest problems show that in the face of the most terrible terrorist attack in history our Government Agencies are still unwilling to correct past practices.
	www.papadoc.net /2005/08/why-able-danger-story-is-important-and.html (2328 words)

	Able Danger Blog: Audio of Able Danger Hearing
		Able Danger was a small, military intelligence unit under Special Operations Command.
		Anthony Shaffer and confirmed by others, Able Danger had identified the 9/11 attack leader, Mohamed Atta, and the three other lead 9/11 hijackers as possible members of an al Qaeda cell operating in the United States by early 2000.
		Able Danger Transcript: Curt Weldon Interview on t...
	www.abledangerblog.com /2006/02/audio-of-able-danger-hearing.html (186 words)

	DefenseLINK News: DoD Discusses ‘Able Danger’ Findings
		After doing extensive document searches and interviewing 80 people involved with the Able Danger program, DoD officials have been unable to find the chart alleged to have contained a photo of Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, said Pat Downs, a senior policy analyst with the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
		Able Danger was started in early October 1999, when the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tasked U.S. Special Operations Command to develop a campaign plan against transnational terrorism, specifically al Qaeda, Chope said.
		Able Danger was never a targeting effort; it was not a military deception operation.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Sep2005/20050901_2595.html (491 words)

	Online NewsHour: The "Able Danger" Senate Hearings -- September 21, 2005
		However, attempts by Able Danger team members to share their information with the FBI in February of 2000 were blocked by Pentagon lawyers.
		Army Reserve Col. Tony Schaeffer was a liaison to the Able Danger unit from the Defense Intelligence Agency.
		He was prepared to discuss the extensive amount of data collected about al-Qaida, underscoring the fact that Able Danger was never about one chart or one photograph but rather was and is about massive data collected and assembled against what Madeleine Albright declared to be in 1999 an international terrorist organization.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec05/abledanger-9-21.html (913 words)

	Power Line: Able Danger: Looks Like It's True
		When I've heard Col. Shaffer interviewed before about Able Danger, on either television or radio, I've felt that he was a little vague and that his account lacked concrete detail.
		The intelligence officers who participated in Able Danger bought it from an internet "information broker." It's easy to understand why the use of this information would have been considered explosive had it become public, especially in the pre-September 11 environment.
		Shaffer describes a meeting with Schoomaker and his staff in which Schoomaker explained to the staff what Able Danger was all about, and said that "what we're doing...is essentially trying to recreate the old OSS capability.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/011545.php (747 words)

	Andrew C. McCarthy on Able Danger on National Review Online
		The Able Danger team members who claim to have identified terrorists and to have been thwarted in their efforts to share their information with the FBI are generally well-respected.
		Finally on September 1, after the number of Able Danger participants supporting the Atta allegation had grown to five, the Pentagon called a news conference, at which a handful of mid-level officials were given the uncomfy task of confessing that much of the documentation generated by the program had actually been destroyed.
		Though not in a position to weigh in on Able Danger, Dugan is well-versed in the intelligence oversight regulations and the spirit in which they have been enforced lo these many years.
	www.nationalreview.com /mccarthy/mccarthy200509260809.asp (1754 words)

	Army project illustrates promise, shortcomings of data mining (12/7/05)
		He also points out that the 9/11 commission failed to include any mention of Able Danger in its final report, which is regarded as an authoritative history of the attacks.
		But Able Danger, for all its intrigue, is just one piece of the unusual intelligence practices that Kleinsmith was engaged in, years before 9/11.
		At a Pentagon briefing on Able Danger in September of this year, Thomas Gandy, the Army's director of counterintelligence and human intelligence, cautioned reporters about inferring too much information from the "links" the IDC established, particularly because its data-mining tools were far less sophisticated than the ones used today.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/1205/120705nj1.htm (4575 words)

	Crazy Curt Weldon's Able Danger Stunt Implodes
		The IG (Inspector General) found no evidence that Able Danger or any other government entity had identified Mohamed Atta or other terrorist cells involved in the attackes of Sept. 11, period.
		"None of the Able Danger team members, who were in a far better position to describe Able Danger findings" than Shaffer or Weldon, including the Air Force commander of the unit, agree that Mohamed Atta or other Sept. 11 hijackers were ever identified, the IG says.
		My sense, after reporting on the Able Danger story for over a year is that if anyone is to be blamed, it is Congressman Weldon: he cynically has used Shaffer & co. to pursue a fantasist political agenda.
	www.taylormarsh.com /archives_view.php?id=24562 (1572 words)

	Able Danger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Shaffer and other Able Danger team members, some of whom were never interviewed by the IG's office nor the 9/11 commission.
		It should be noted that Able Danger documentation was destroyed and any that might have passed along to follow up programs may also have been destroyed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Able_Danger (4168 words)

	Operation Able Danger 9/11 review
		Whether "Able Danger" was yet another observing team, is therefore already irrelevant but has to be investigated.
		Details of the origins and efforts of Able Danger were corroborated in a telephone interview by GSN with a former defense intelligence officer who said he worked closely with that program.
		Thus, the information Able Danger had amassed about the only terrorist cell they had located inside the United States could not be shared with the FBI, the lawyers concluded.
	911review.org /Wiki/AbleDanger.shtml (8136 words)

	Media is a Plural » Blog Archive » Able Danger Atta Photo Mystery Solved
		Ever since the Pentagon-ordered destruction in 2000 of 2.5 terabytes of data unearthed by Able Danger – allegedly including a chart featuring Atta’s photograph that revealed terrorist links and patterns when clicked on — skeptics have long raised doubt about the very existence of the chart and the photograph in question.
		Despite their best efforts, however, Able Danger members were unsuccessful in several attempts to relay their information to the FBI for further investigation and/or action.
		Notably, Cambone called the Able Danger program “an enormous success” – a far cry from the previous Pentagon stance that there was little of value discovered by the program.
	www.roryoconnor.org /blog/index.php?p=162 (907 words)

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