This stinks. I've sent so many emails, my fingers hurt.
The stench is really strong. Here's the time line from the article:
-Nov. '03: Shaffer tells the 9/11 Commission about Able Danger.
-March '04: Shaffer is placed on paid administrative leave by the DIA because it's investigating allegations that he broke some rules.
-Oct. '04: Shaffer is promoted to Lt. Col. despite the fact that the DIA is still investigating the allegations.
If there were really anything to the allegations, it's incomprehensible that he'd have been promoted in '04. Somebody has to be out to get him. It's really shocking that neither Bush nor Rumsfield has done anything about this.