[MNJohnnie]

) What lawyers in the Department of Defense made the decision in late 2000 not to pass the information from Able Danger to the FBI?

There are a number of aspects of this story that are troubling me.

Why were lawyers at DOD making this decision? Shouldn't they have handed off any DOMESTIC information to the FBI? Shouldn't it have been up to the FBI what to do with this information?

What was DOD doing running a DOMESTIC Intelligence Operation? Remember this is PRE 9-11. I could see something like Able Danger now but find it really hard to believe the same Administration that put up "the wall" was going to authorize DOD to do Able Danger.

[gov_bean_ counter]

President Clinton had the DOD spying on American Citizens.

[GLH3IL]

Maybe the White House didn't authorize the DOD to do it. Perhaps the DOD had a sense that something nasty was brewing domestically that would be of concern to them so they wanted a heads up because they knew of "The Wall" and didn't want to be in the dark intelligence-wise.

Just a very loose guess...but it would seem to make sense to a small degree.