MILITARY 'SPIED' ON RICE (More Able Danger leaks from Specter staffers)

NY Post ^ | 8/27/05 | NILES LATHEM

[jimbo123]

Cyber-sleuths working for a Pentagon intelligence unit that reportedly identified some of the 9/11 hijackers before the attack were fired by military officials, after they mistakenly pinpointed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other prominent Americans as potential security risks, The Post has learned.

The private contractors working for the counter-terrorism unit Able Danger lost their jobs in May 2000. The firings following a series of analyses that Pentagon lawyers feared were dangerously close to violating laws banning the military from spying on Americans, sources said.

The Pentagon canceled its contract with the private firm shortly after the analysts — who were working on identifying al Qaeda operatives — produced a particularly controversial chart on proliferation of sensitive technology to China, the sources said.

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Sources said the private contractors, using sophisticated computer software that sifts through massive amounts of raw data to establish patterns, came up with a chart of Chinese strategic and business connections in the U.S.

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The China chart was put together by James Smith, who confirmed yesterday that his contract with the military was canceled and he was fired from his company because the military brass became concerned about the focus on U.S. citizens.

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"It was shut down in a matter of hours. The colonel said our service was no longer needed and told me: 'You just ended my career.' "

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[Mo1]

Holy crap

* According to classified CIA documents leaked to the Washington Times, between 1994 and 1997, the CIA learned that China sold Iran missile technology, a nuclear fission reactor, advanced air-defense radar and chemical agents. The Chinese also provided 5,000 ring magnets to Pakistan, used in producing weapons-grade uranium. The Chinese also provided uranium fuel for India's reactors.

[Eva]

I bet that there were some really interesting people down in New Mexico on that chart.

[cinives]

The private defense contractor was interviewed on Fox News this morning. He specifically said he WOULD NOT talk about all the names on the chart.

Seems to me he's afraid of something...or someone(s).

[semaj]

"You just ended my career.' "

Give me a break.

[Bob]

It looks to me like Condi and others were turned up in the first, broad computer run and this was used as a pretext for shutting the operation down because those who shut it down were concerned about the illicit contacts between the Clinton administration and the Chinese that were probably in the pile.

In early 2000, GWB hadn't even been elected yet. Condi wasn't even at the State department (in any capacity) until almost a year later. AFAIK, she had no position with the clinton admistration whatsoever.

[Wuli]

It does not give me confidence that the hearings are going to Specter's committee. I would rather, on the basis that it was a DOD project, that the hearings go to a military/defense committee, and yet preferrably not military intelligence, where I believe sits J F......ng Kerry.

[EverOnward]

agree with your assumption

Clinton isn't the only one with Chinese friends

[mware]

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 7, 2000

April 6, 2000

MEMORANDUM FOR
THE VICE PRESIDENT
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION
THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY
THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
ADMINISTRATOR, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTOR, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
DIRECTOR, UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE

SUBJECT: Designation of the Attorney General as the Lead Official for the Emergency Response Assistance Program Under Sections 1412 and 1415 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201) (the "Act")

Under sections 1412(a) and 1415(a) of the Act, the Secretary of Defense is responsible for implementing the Emergency Response Assistance Program, commonly known as the "Domestic Preparedness Program," to provide civilian personnel of Federal, State, and local agencies with training and expert advice regarding emergency responses to a use or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction or related materials, and for testing and improving the responses of such agencies to emergencies involving chemical or biological weapons and related materials.

Under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including sections 1412(a)(2) and 1415(d)(1) of the Act, I designate the Attorney General to replace the Secretary of Defense as the lead Federal official with responsibility for carrying out these programs.

These designations are effective October 1, 2000, and constitute designations pursuant to sections 1412(a)(2) and 1415(d)(1) of the Act.

The Attorney General is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

[Wuli]

I am sure, in as much as the project used predominately public sources of information, that there were many phases of the "charts" produced from the data, to allow humans to weed out false positives. Like finding a college/think tank person specializing in foreign policy, including technology transfers, (like Rice) when you build a database on names with searches for ANYTHING that includes "China" + "technology" + something + somthing else.

This is a smokescreen designed to distract from the real "finds" with Able/Danger.

As a famous radio talk show personality said yesterday, regardless of party, when the nations' political class as a whole is really threatened, they circle the wagons.

Gee, I wonder what other "commissions" and "investigations" Specter has served on in the past. Hmmmmmmmm

[Mo1]

Dr. SUSAN Rice

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/29/132456.shtml
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Another ex-Clinton official who played a leading role in bungling efforts to capture and/or neutralize Osama bin Laden has turned up in a key advisory position with the Kerry campaign.

Susan Rice, who served as President Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, had earlier been tapped by Gov. Howard Dean's anti-war campaign.

http://www.emergingmarkets.aem.cornell.edu/whats_new/rice_bio.html

Rice received B.A. in History from Stanford and an M.Phil. from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She also received a D.Phil. (Ph.D) in International Relations from Oxford. She is married to Ian Cameron and has two children.



William J. Perry


http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/perry.htm
William J. Perry
February 3, 1994 - January 23, 1997
19th Secretary of Defense
Clinton Administration

[Howlin]

I'm betting it's the same guy.

[Mo1]

stupid question ... but why did this report go to Specters office?

[EverOnward]

copied and sent to many -- good find

[EverOnward]

Re your post #35

Rush says heads are going to roll? Whose? Is this another smoke and mirrors trick to make a bureaucrat responsible NOT the politicians? And why hasn't Bush been more aggressive in outing the mess created by the Clintons? Makes me wonder why/if Bush is trying to cover it up too.

[jimbo123]

We Freepers have always known it was the China Connection.

Exactly. Bill and Hitlery Clinton and their minions like Gorelick let Atta kill so many innocent Americans because of the coverup of their China crimes. They cared nothing for all the Americans that were killed on 9/11. They only thought about how they could continue the coverup. Bill and Hitlery and their minions are truly evil beings.

[Dog]

Peach...Able Danger is going to get buried. It touches way to many people in both parties.

[Alia]

I'm amazed Jamie Gorelick was included on the 9/11 Commission, truly, amazed

IN YOUR FACE: IN YOUR CHILDREN'S FACES -- is the trademark practice and method of the left.

[seadevil]

My "guess" would be that, like just about everybody exposed to potentially alarming data; especially national security data during the Clinton administration, extensive data back-ups were made by the A/D folks; illegal though it might have been. A/D wasn't staffed by dummies. They "mined" over 12 tera-bytes of data and those conclusions are on file, somewhere...

"Keep your powder dry" is right.

[EverOnward]

I'm late on whose on first here. Who appointed the 9/11 commission and why. It seems to me that the 9/11 commission was someone’s ingenious action to appear to get to the answers, but in reality to cover with cement the truth. Was Bush in on this or was he flimflammed?

[OldFriend]

You have written the exact words I said to my husband not fifteen minutes ago.