I disagree. You want to believe it is a cover-up, so you refuse to allow for any other possible interpretation of the evidence. Your mind is closed to two-way traffic; there is only one destination possible in your mind.
In my mind I see the possibility of a cover-up. I also see the possibility that this was a bleeding-edge Pentagon initiative that foundered on the shoals of Clinton-era political correctness. That much is in the public domain already, placed there by Shaffer without interference from the DoD, so there certainly was no "cover-up" to that extent. But Able Danger was apparently a highly sophisticated software/data analysis program that merited the highest security classification. There are likely many legitimate concerns about puking these secrets all over the media so our enemies can get smart at no expense to themselves.
"Cover-up" implies CYA carried out by criminals who have reason to fear for their own protection and well-being if the truth is made known. Sorry. I just don't see Rumsfeld as falling into that category. Rummy is nothing if not straight-up, fearless, and brutally candid. He is a man of integrity, not a fearful desperate coward. So although I am able to see more than one possible interpretation of the evidence, I tend toward a more innocent and honorable explanation consistent with the character of the man who apparently ordered Shaffer not to testify under the hearings as presently constituted.
I agree about Rumsfeld personally- but it still doesn't add up.
"But Able Danger was apparently a highly sophisticated software/data analysis program that merited the highest security classification."
Huh?
The information gathered was done from commerical open-source databases.
Just existence of the program was classified not the method.
I think the problem here is we created a process using some form of Artificial Intelligence that works very well. Probably too well and people in both congress and the military are scared. While we figured out how to track people, we figured out HOW TO TRACK PEOPLE.
What is probably frightening, especially for the Clintons, is that whatever we have here definitely violates our civil rights and is something that the ACLU and even us on the other side would scream about. Even if this was designed and implemented under Reagan or Bush Sr., Clinton knew about it and shut it down knowing ful well what was going to happen.
Problem is he shut it down and because he did, 3,000 Americans died on 9/11. Go a step further, the 9/11 commission covered it up and they are going to lay the blame on Kean as he was the head of it.
Kean was appointed by Bush. I am not much on conspiracy theories, but I think that what Weldon is doing is exactly what the RATS want him to do. The MSM is going to have a field day with this. Just like how they covered up Sandy Berger, they will figure out how to burn the administration on this.
And it will all come out right before the 2006 election.