Posted on 10/04/2010 4:52:12 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
A document obtained and witnesses interviewed by Fox News raise new questions over whether there was an effort by the Defense Department to cover up a pre-9/11 military intelligence program known as "Able Danger."
At least five witnesses questioned by the Defense Department's Inspector General told Fox News that their statements were distorted by investigators in the final IG's report -- or it left out key information, backing up assertions that lead hijacker Mohammed Atta was identified a year before 9/11.
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That Sandy Berger guy?
From April 2004:
Oklahoma City, TWA Flight 800, and the Gorelick connection
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118798/posts
To finally understand what happened you have to keep asking the question, WHY ARE THEY LYING?
If I told you what happened, you wouldn't believe me. Gerald Ford was to the Warren Commission what Jamie Gorelick was to the 9/11 Commission.
History repeats itself
A Congressman (Weldon ?) was talking about this some years ago, even had a blog.
http://www.abledangerblog.com/
She then made millions in some position or other in Fanny Mae or Freddy Mac.
Shaffer, who was undercover at the time, said there was “stunned silence” at the meeting after he told the executive director of the commission and others that Atta was identified as early as 2000 by “Able Danger.”
“Dr. Philip Zelikow approached me in the corner of the room. ‘What you said today is very important. I need you to get in touch with me as soon as you return from your deployment here in Afghanistan’,” Shaffer said.
Once back in the U.S., Shaffer says he contacted the commission. Without explanation, the commission was no longer interested. An inspector general report by the Department of Defense concluded there was no evidence to support the claims of Shaffer and others. But Fox News has obtained an unredacted copy of the IG report containing the names of witnesses, who backed up Shaffer’s story when contacted for comment.
Would like to hear your opinion on the matter.
Capt. Scott Phillpott, head of the Able Danger program, asks Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer to talk to a representative of CIA Director George Tenet and attempt to convince him that the new Able Danger program is not competing with the CIA. Shaffer later recalls the CIA representative replying, “I clearly understand the difference. I clearly understand. We’re going after the leadership. You guys are going after the body. But, it doesn’t matter. The bottom line is, CIA will never give you the best information from ‘Alex Base’ [the CIA’s covert action element targeting bin Laden] or anywhere else. CIA will never provide that to you because if you were successful in your effort to target al-Qaeda, you will steal our thunder. Therefore, we will not support this.” Shaffer claims that for the duration of Able Danger’s existence, “To my knowledge, and my other colleagues’ knowledge, there was no information ever released to us because CIA chose not to participate in Able Danger.” [GOVERNMENT SECURITY NEWS, 9/2005]
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=scott_phillpott
PROJECT “ABLE DANGER”
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
August 23, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
Recently, there has been revealing news about the U.S. Army’s Project “Able Danger,” which was established in September 1999 by Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, then head of the Special Operations Command. Schoomaker had previously advised Texas Governor Ann Richards and the FBI regarding what military equipment could be used in the attack upon the Branch Davidians at Waco (a mock-up of the Davidians’ compound was at Fort Hood, Texas, where Schoomaker was an assistant to Gen. Wesley Clark, a Rhodes Scholar named by fellow Rhodes Scholar President Bill Clinton to be military head of NATO). Schoomaker has also advocated joint military training exercises with the Communist Chinese, and on August 1, 2003 President George W. Bush named him Army Chief of Staff.
Able Danger used advanced technology and data analysis to identify and target Al-Qaeda members around the world. Long before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Able Danger identified 9-11 ringleader Mohammed Atta in September 2000 as part of an Al-Qaeda cell in Brooklyn, and eventually 60 members of Al-Qaeda were identified.
Concerning Atta’s background, in November 1998 he and several other terrorists moved into a 4-bedroom apartment in Hamburg, Germany. On February 17 of the next year, German intelligence began tapping suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist Mohammed Haydar Zammar’s phone, and they heard Zammar was at a meeting with Atta. By December 1999, the CIA began to recruit German businessman Mamoun Darkazanli for information because he knew Atta and others of the Hamburg Al-Qaeda terrorist cell.
The next month (January 2000), according to the German intelligence magazine FOCUS (September 24, 2001), the CIA began surveillance of Atta which lasted to May 2000. Christian Elflein and others wrote in the FOCUS article that “U.S. agents followed him (Atta) mainly in the area around Frankfurt am Main and noted that Atta bought large quantities of chemicals for the possible production of explosives....On May 18, 2000 the U.S. Embassy in Berlin gave (Atta) a visa....Strange that the visa application and granting it happened in the period when the (CIA) was still observing the suspicious buying of chemicals by the person (Atta) concerned....Someone from the (German) intelligence service (told) FOCUS: ‘We can no longer exclude the possibility that the Americans wanted to keep an eye on Atta after his entry in the USA.’...German security experts are still stunned about the speed with which the FBI could present the conspirative ties of Atta and his presumed Hamburg accomplices. ‘As (if all it needed was) a push on a button,’ an insider says, ‘As if the Americans for a long time already had loads of info on their computers about the culprits.’”
At this point, it is worth mentioning that Yossef Bodansky (director of the U.S. House of Representatives Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare) in TARGET AMERICA: TERRORISM IN THE U.S. TODAY (1993) referred to a large Islamist network spanning the U.S. including “all the components of a mature terrorist support system (with) safe houses in major cities, weapons, ammunition, money, systems to provide medical and legal aid, false identity papers, and intelligence for the operative.” The point in including this here is to ask how Bodansky would know about all this unless the terrorist network were already being monitored by the federal government?
Do tell. Freepmail me if you like.
August 12, 2005
Able Danger, Continued
Michelle Malkin with a blizzard of links.
Jim Geraghty has a really good what we don’t know/what we need to know summary.
And yes, he asks the question that commenters have: Was Sandy Berger reading documents related to Able Danger when he walked out with a passel of them in his panties?
I have to admit I’ve been a little worried that this story would end up cutting conservatives politically. After all, while this discovery was made on Clinton’s watch, and the info wasn’t shared due to Jamie Gorelick’s now-infamous wall of separation, Bush still could have done something.
But the fact that former terrorism-denier and the Democrats’ new favorite ex-CIA agent is trying to throw cold water on the story reassures me.
More On Sandy “Docs In His Socs” Berger: Dr. Sanity notes that this gives Berger motive. Or, as Columbo would say, motive, means, and opportunity.
The biggest defense of Berger has been the claim that there was nothing in those National Archives sufficiently sensitive or embarrassing to justify a deliberate theft of original memos... and their subsequent illegal destruction.
Of course there wasn’t any nefarious intent, Berger’s defenders argued; there just wasn’t anything sufficiently compromising to cause him to act in such a bizarre fashion.
Now it's back, as if none of this stuff was ever brought up.
The info was given to the the 9-11 Commission, Roemer & Lehman both lied and said they never saw it.
February 15, 2006
The House Armed Services Committee, and the Subcommittee on Terrorism Hold a Joint Hearing on the Able Danger Program. C-span canceled showing the open hearing at the last minute. Why won’t the media let the public watch the “Demeanor” of the witnesses on the open hearing that started at 2:38 pm on Feb. 15, 2006 about Able Danger??????
btt
About the book: You can buy the redacted version with lots of black blocking-out. The DOD burned all the unredacted copies. A few of them got away—thirty-seven or so that were sent to reviewers—and some of these are, or were, available on eBay for thousands of dollars.
Shaffer was on C-SPAN at the National Book Festival (and other shows) and they had callers call in with questions. One guy who called in said he was the production editor at St. Martin’s who was responsible for making the changes according to the DOD instructions. He said that there are enough errors (something blacked out in one paragraph that then then appears later) that you can pretty much figure out what was blacked out.
Whether this was a ploy to sell more copies of the redacted book I do not know, but that is what the production editor said.
Sandy Burglar?
Able Danger 9/11 cover-up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSTip84eIfw&feature=related
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9 11 Prior Knowledge Able Danger Hearing for Lt Col Anthony Shaffer in Congress CSPAN - CoreOfCorruption
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvABLaMUT8&feature=related
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This is STILL mind boggling and numbing!!! Why would
OUR defense intel agency do this ??
God bless and protect Tony Shaffer .. bring the truth out!
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Department Of Defense Destroys 9,500 Copies Of New Book
By Lauren Schmoll
Published: October 04, 2010
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Last month the Department of Defense destroyed 9,500 copies of a new book entitled “Operation Dark Heart.”
The book was a soldier’s account of his time spent as a “black ops” officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
The US government purchased the entire print run of the book a few weeks before its release in order to keep classified information from reaching the public.
The Pentagon says it was the first time it has ever destroyed a printed book because it contained classified information.
The book has now been edited and republished without it.
http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2010/oct/04/department-defense-destroys-9500-copies-new-book-ar-248845/
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The Operation Dark Heart Story
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Operation Dark Heart exposes the good and bad of combat operations the U.S. Government does not want uncovered. Dark Heart highlights how a committed and innovative small group of experts can produce results despite operating in an often disfunctional system.
The account given by Tony Shaffer of how things worked in Afghanistan and in Washington give a whole new insight to the soldiers doing the fighting and a top heavy bureaucracy that impedes mission execution on the ground and consequently hinders overall mission effectiveness.
http://www.operationdarkheart.com/
He was targeted by Clintoon and his Clintonite buddy Sestak who beat him in the election. Now Sestak is about to lose the PA Senate seat to Toomey.
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