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Able Danger Documents Discovered?
Captain's Quarters ^
| May 21, 2006
| Captain Ed
Posted on 05/21/2006 5:23:25 PM PDT by bobsunshine
The Able Danger blog has news from a FOIA request filed by Scott Malone of NavySeals.com and Christopher Law of PublicEdCenter.org that has produced an interesting response from the Pentagon. When they demanded the release of all information regarding the Able Danger project, the DoD rejected the request after a bit of bureaucratic misdirection. However, they acknowledged the existence of over 9500 pages of documentation -- apparently the same paperwork that they told Congress no longer existed:
"In two possibly related developments in the past week, the Pentagon denied access to almost 10,000 pages of classified documents relating to a top-secret intelligence program senior officials have three times previously testified were destroyed or unable to be located. And the attorneys for the secret team members who disclosed the existence of the data-mining counter-terrorism program, called ABLE DANGER, have argued in a new court filing that they be cleared to review such files. The Defense Departments Inspector Generals office (DoD-OIG) and the joint Special Operations Command (SOCOM) have amassed some 9,500 pages of documents on a program that senior DoD and 9/11 Commission officials have stated repeatedly were destroyed or can no longer be located.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, has determined that approximately 9,500 pages of these collected documents are potentially responsive to your FOIA request."
That news should stun those who have been following the Able Danger story for the past year. The official story has had all documentation being destroyed in a particularly aggressive form of housekeeping that took place after Col. Tony Shaffer revealed the existence of the program to the 9/11 Commission. The missing documentation proves, according to Shaffer, that the intelligence community identified Mohammed Atta and the other members of the core 9/11 cell prior to the attacks as potential al-Qaeda agents.
The assertion that 9500 pages of evidence still exists at the Pentagon will no doubt surprise members of Congress that received little from their investigations into the program. Hopefully this will pique their curiosity once more. Be sure to read all of the links at the Able Danger blog.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; 911; abledanger; atta; foia; gorelickwall; wot
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To: bobsunshine; 91B; HiJinx; Spiff; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; ...
OH Please let this be true!!!!!! Please Dear God!
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:26:03 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: bobsunshine
bttt, now I'm gonna' read it....
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:26:21 PM PDT
by
turbocat
To: bobsunshine; All
Thanks for posting Bob.
To the rest of you... yes, it's true.
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:29:03 PM PDT
by
AliVeritas
("Quod Deus vult" (Urban II))
To: bobsunshine
question is...is there anything in those 9500 pages?
I like "captains quarters" but will reserve judgement on this revalation
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:29:45 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: bobsunshine
To: SandRat
PREDICTION: Most likely is that the lawyers involved
(with Gorelick and Berger) will just DESTROY the documents (a la Sandy Berger-Burglar).
Why? Food for thought on FLASHBACK:
Sandy Berger-Burglar was a key beneficiary of "Gorelicks Wall"
TIME, "The Ubiquitous Mr. Fix-It", Adam Cohen
John Kerry was a key beneficiary of Berger's Burglaries
Rescued: Data the Kerry/Edwards Campaign Tried to DELETE from its site! (grandpa dave found cache)
Berger purloined all draft revisions of a key critique of the government's response
to the millennium terrorism threat, a document that detailed Administration knowledge
and inaction regarding al Qaeda presence in the U.S. in 1999
and 2000. Stolen were crucial notes in the margins of these drafts
which reveal the thinking and agendas of the
Clinton Administration relating to the mounting terrorist threat.
Washington Post, "Berger Quits as Advisor to Kerry", Susan Schmidt
Berger was not qualified as NSA.
He was a millionaire lawyer and lobbyist with a career centered on expanding trade with China.
Tom Laughlin, http://www.billyjack.com/jung/08_politics/articles/990515_spy.html
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh opined that
Burger was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press .
The New Yorker, per http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311030753.asp
Dick Morris noted Berger seemed to work overtime
at opposing tough measures against terror,
advising vetoes of legislation aimed at crippling Iranian terror funding
and working to block antiterror sanctions.
Wall Street Journal, "While Clinton Fiddled", Dick Morris, http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=95001824
Berger repeatedly rebuffed Sudanese offers to hand Osama bin Laden
to the United States in a deal brokered by a $900,000 contributor to Democrat campaigns.
Source 1 - National Review, "Clinton & Khobar", Rich Lowry
Source 2 - Washington Times, "Miniter Responds", Richard Miniter
Berger allowed bin Laden and his top lieutenants to escape to Afghanistan.
NewsMax, "Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden", Chuck Noe
Berger was singled-out by UN Inspector Scott Ritter for the collapse of UN inspections efforts in Iraq].
"Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All" by Scott Ritter
Berger admitted that the Clinton Administration failed to develop a war plan to fight al Qaeda
National Review, "Warning B.S.", Rich Lowry
Berger was the "go-to" man regarding China policy
when Communist Chinese money was being funneled into Democrat Party coffers
in exchange for policy concessions, strategic nuclear technology,
and all pending patent applications at the US Patent Office.
The Hill, "Fundraiser resurfaces from 1996", Sam Dealey
Berger stonewalled the Energy Department about Chinese spying in Los Alamos for three years.
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:30:57 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: Enchante; STARWISE; Howlin
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:32:26 PM PDT
by
AliVeritas
("Quod Deus vult" (Urban II))
To: bobsunshine
Thanks for the post Bob, let the sun shine in. :-)
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:33:49 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(-- Married a WAC in '65 and I'm still reenlisting. :-)
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:34:43 PM PDT
by
AliVeritas
("Quod Deus vult" (Urban II))
To: AliVeritas; bobsunshine
BTTT!
This is incredible news!
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:35:13 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: bobsunshine
I fear that too many people on both sides of the aisle have too many past failures to hide to want much to get out to the public.
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:37:39 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: mylife
To: YaYa123; nutmeg
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:39:20 PM PDT
by
StarFan
To: bobsunshine
Isnt there a report the Dems tried to hide that so far they have been sucessful The Barrett report or something like that?
To: Diogenesis
Yep. Time to bring out the Popeil Cabbage/Document Shredder.
To: bobsunshine
Let's hope they exist...with copies, too.
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:41:12 PM PDT
by
hershey
To: Diogenesis
Dio, who were the two Z's involved? One was Zelikow (suppresser)... Do you remember?
It seems Hadley forgot as well.
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:41:57 PM PDT
by
AliVeritas
("Quod Deus vult" (Urban II))
To: AliVeritas
kewl.......................
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posted on
05/21/2006 5:45:27 PM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(Once a Snowflake, always a Snowflake ! Good luck Tony!)
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