Don't be so quick to smear the Able Danger crew.
Do you REALLY think that Clinton killed the Able Danger project because Condi appeared on their China chart?
Aren't you interested in finding out who else was on their China chart?
Rice would have been a minor player at the time.
Look at the shut down date and realize Rice wasn't the reason they shut it down.
Now those would have been interesting charts, but it sounds like the Pro Chi-com side of the house was protecting their backside.
We *lnow* who....Bag man Gore.
From the article it's not clear that the accusations came from the A/D crew. I have no reason to smear them, it's my impression that someone else threw out the Rice bit.
Yes, I do want to know more about the China/Clinton story. After all, it may very well be my children or grandchildren who fight a war because of what happened there.
The kind of electronic matching analysis they were doing looks like a very sophisticated version of a Google search one of us might do on some topic or a police department running a computerized check on a set of unknown fingerprints found at a crime scene. In any such situation a lot of irrelevant information is going to be turned up along with valuable information. Then it's up to the humans to take over from the computers and do some serious analysis.
Any search of publicly available materials regarding relations between the U.S. and China is going to turn up large numbers of high ranking people in the foreign policy establishment who have extensive, legitimate relations with the Chinese. Then the analysts need to dig deeper to find out who has the illegitimate relations. 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. That's much like getting a pile of possible fingerprints from a computer search and shutting down the final analysis to protect the real perp.
I bet that there were some really interesting people down in New Mexico on that chart.
More likely it was shut down because so many of Bill and Hillaries Chinese friends showed up on the list. Clinton is responsible (IMHO) for allowing our sensitive technology to be sold to China by Loral and other defense contractors.
Did you ever find out who else is on that chart with Rice?