Yep an illegal program.
Wonder if any of the illegally acquired data made its way to the information brokers. Would be valuable.
but still, if the program occurred under clinton's pentagon - what's wrong with outing it?
or is the real issue that - its still going on?
This is why they stopped them testifying.
• A Pentagon employee, who will testify that he was ordered to destroy 2.5 terabytes of information Able Danger had compiled, which is roughly equivalent to one-fourth of all the printed material in the Library of Congress. According to Congressman Weldon, this person, as yet unidentified, will also name the officer who gave the order.
"Wonder if any of the illegally acquired data made its way to the information brokers."
Given the large number of 'put' options mysteriously placed on American and United shortly before 9-11, I'd say 'Yes'.
You could make the same argument about the demolition of WTC-7 (as admitted by WTC Complex owner Larry Silverstein) - it takes a few days to rig a building to perfectly implode.
It looks like now, from the AD data, that this attack and its planners were known well before the day and this wasn't entirely as 'unexpected' as we've been told.
Which is probably why they want to keep this covered. Much easier to fight the WOT this way.