Posted on 02/01/2006 12:10:01 PM PST by vadkins
Everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask, or the answers were classified…) about the controversial Able Danger data mining project, which identified four 9/11 hijackers a year before the terror attacks.
1. Did Anthony Shaffer, or anyone on the Able Danger team, obtain a photo of Mohamed Atta from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), as Shaffer’s interview with Government Security News (GSN) states?
The photo of Atta came from an information broker who provided it and others. Shaffer’s comments were made to GSN based on his knowledge at the time, which came from his knowledge of what the US Army’s Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA) operations center had access to. Shaffer’s interview with GSN took place before civilian analyst JD Smith came forward and clarified the issue. Shaffer did not know in 1999-2000 all the specifics of how Smith and company were doing the detailed data mining – it was Shaffer’s belief at the time that the photo had come from INS records. LIWA did have access to INS documents - and a Defense Department intelligence program called the Foreign Visitor Program, in which not only photos of foreign nationals but also their entire visa application were provided – but Shaffer was not aware of LIWA’s use of information brokers.
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If you take Able Danger, the information that the FBI had but was prevented from sharing, Clinton's refusal to take Osama when offere, and the information that Stephen Hayes, Bill Gertz, and others have reported about the AlQaeda-Saddam links and the WMDs (they were there, BTW), you hav ea patttern, and you have 3000 people dead whose deaths could have been prevented.
Yeah, I'd like to see that, too. I'd also like to sic Rep. Weldon on the terrorist surveillance leak.
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