Rumsfeld says that 9/11 Commission briefed about Able Danger

FNC | August 23, 2005 | FNC

[Roccus]

If you do, you'll have to change your name to Methusela!

[justshutupandtakeit]

You are correct there is no such thing as "International Law" there are only laws of different countries and some are ok some are idiotic. No case has been decided by invoking "international law". If you can point to an actual law "invoked" please do so.

[txhurl]

What Shaffer was pointing out multipe times is that the data being mined was open-source, available NOW from pay-for databases and the internet. All he needs is the code,(or the permission to run the code) which technically belongs to the DOD, but which might be stored somewhere accidentally by his programming chick colleague and that consultant in California.

[Dat Mon]

The data may have been open source...but the mechanism to extract it from those sources may be quite unique and state of the art...way beyond Google. The collection mechanism and algorithm was IMHO part of the programs uniqueness.
Remember that this program, which ran on a secure computer system and a hackproof network, generated terabytes of background data.

However, if you have the background data generated by the program...and the program source code...you could in theory recompile the program and regenerate any and all reports from the archived data. The report process should also be part of the program.

To prove that this team fingered Atta in 2000, you would need to get the archived background data they had back in 2000, and regenerate the reports as they originally did in 2000.

Now it would be very interesting if both the program source code and the archived data from 2000 were BOTH erased, wouldnt it?

[txhurl]

Indeed. But they've had three years to 'rebuild' what was taken away when AD was put to pasture. I'm just saying that the original distillation of Atta & plan has probably been created again, using all the tools they originally used. It's a good thing.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Comprehensive knowledge of laws is important. Much of our legal system was built on English Common Law. Foreign legal theorists such as Montaigne played an important role in the development of ours.

This is a non issue unless you are willing to exaggerate any impact and distort the realities of judicial research.

[Tymesup]

thanks for the confirm

I couldn't find anything interesting about Mr. Young and FEMA. I'm either confused, no good at searching or the pages are gone.

[San Jacinto]

Comprehensive knowledge of laws is important. Much of our legal system was built on English Common Law. Foreign legal theorists such as Montaigne played an important role in the development of ours.

All of which is totally irrelevant to the whether current trends in international law should play a role in interpreting the U.S Constitution as espoused by Stevens,Ginsburg and O'Connor. Fundamentally, it is an issue of national sovereignty.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I don't share your belief that US law is in a bubble. Even the vocabulary of the Constitution is derived from the concepts of long established legal codes not of domestic origin. This is a tempest in a teapot and of no real concern.

[FlashBack]

Very enlightening thread, opened my eyes to alot of things that were going on with the Clintonistas before I had my "awakening"...

[FlashBack]

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