[inquest]

It's not as though the current Pentagon has been entirely innocent of stonewalling on that.

But regardless, what implications would that have had on the administration's ability to hit back at those responsible for the Cole bombing? That Able Danger thing was about identifying and tracking individual terrorists, not about finding out which organizations and state sponsors were responsible for what attacks.

[luvbach1]

We just don't know everything that Able Danger dealt with. In view of the volume of material gathered and reported subsequently destroyed, there may have been linkages to the Cole attack. Who knows what was destroyed?