[Travis McGee]

Travel dates/documents discrepancies etc are easily explained if one understands the MO of Able Danger: "Brilliant" data mining.

If the cell members lent or borrowed or traded cell phones and or credit cards, the data mining would show a hit for the person with the cell phone or credit card hit, NOT the physical person who may have used it.

Atta's cards or cell phones might have been used (getting hits on Able Danger's radar) with Atta not even in the country.

[maestro]

..... If the cell members lent or borrowed or traded cell phones and or credit cards, the data mining would show a hit for the person with the cell phone or credit card hit, NOT the physical person who may have used it. Atta's cards or cell phones might have been used (getting hits on Able Danger's radar) with Atta not even in the country.

Bingo!