Do you have any idea Jim?
Unfortunately, just like CIA and State, DoD is filled with bureaucrats who may not necessarily be loyal to this White House...so, when the facts point, inconveniently, to Bubba Klinton and other Dem buffoons, the stonewalling begins. Plus, the President has allowed the "why can't we all get along" mentality that keeps Mineta in DoT, to creep into the Pentagon...
I suspect that "data mining" looked like baloney to every brass hat who handled the reports. Data mining is pretty neat but also heavily mathematical, statistical, and counter intuitive. (Fun.)
Never saw a big shot who understood even the concepts.
Now those same brass hats, all the way up to Clinton, look like fools (because they are, natch).
You want to really make enemies in any large organization offer to data mine the data bases. The "nuclear option" ensues. Fear and rage from the brass. Personal experience here.
with that much flak, that caliber of flak, you know they are on to something
That 'new tone' strategy just continues to pay dividends! I sure am glad the Bush Admin isn't pissing anybody off in DC. < /s>
I think there are plenty of careerist liberals throughout the DoD bureaucracy, and especially in the DIA and the General Counsel's office, from what we have seen about how various intel was mishandled there and AD was shut down by DIA and Gen. Counsel bureaucrats. What Rumsfeld knows and how much he feels able to intervene, I don't know, but I sure hope we will soon see Rumsfeld shake up the DIA and the legal eagles who wrecked AD. I doubt that Rumsfeld or his immediate staff had much of an inkling about Able Danger before this summer, but now that they have had time to get up to speed I would hope that the top brass will be raising hell and demanding full cooperation from all levels in the most thorough investigation possible. I know Rumsfeld has a zillion things on his plate, but correcting the mess around AD is crucial, not simply for understanding what happened in the past but for doing it all much better in the future. Some liberal careerists have to be run out of town on a rail, especially the ones who have been persecuting Col. Shaffer, else this intel situation will never improve.