[4woodenboats]

They've already started. I read a story in the Seattle Times from the NYTimes, in which the meetings took place between AD operatives & Defence Dept in the summer of 2000, and early 2001. I can find nothing to back up 2001 meetings, I believe the NYT just slid that in there to implicate the incoming administration.

So here too the Post uses early 2001 in a decidedly ambiguous yet suggestive way;

"He called it an internal working group with a core of 10 staffers at Special Operations Command. Philpott was the "team leader," he said. "Able Danger was never a military unit," and it never targeted individual terrorists, he said. It went out of existence when the planning effort was finished in early 2001, he said."

This raises, by design methinks, the question of which administration shut down Able Danger - the brilliant and ever viligant Richard Clarke, who made it his life's work tracking Al Qaeda, or the woefully incompetent Condi Rice who stole his job [dripping sarcasm].

This'll be the diversion, making it look like the Bush administration ended intelligence gathering the 1st day in office, and the 3rd thing Bush did that day - planning a vacation being #1, ordering the Iraq war 2nd of course!

[Marine_Uncle]

"This raises, by design methinks, the question of which administration shut down Able Danger - the brilliant and ever viligant Richard Clarke, who made it his life's work tracking Al Qaeda, or the woefully incompetent Condi Rice who stole his job [dripping sarcasm]."

Most likely none of the above. It is going to be found that the military shut it done for a number of reasons. Perhaps you may want to delve into the following new post and the link to the excellant GSN article.
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/sep_05/shaffer_interview.html