I see that I have some catching up to do here.
BTW, I've heard Weldon several times now say that Able Danger guys gave a briefing in January '01 and again in the spring of '01.
The spring of '01 places this clearly in the lap of the Bush administration. Do you know who received the briefing or when (approximately) the briefing occurred? Or even confirmation from Weldon that he's actually said this.
I've heard him say it but don't have transcripts of his comments.
Weldon says in the last week he learned that thought the bulk of activity was in 99 and 2000, but a 3 hour brief was given to Chairman of Joint Chiefs in 2001, Steve Cambone, was in meeting with lawyer and head of DIA in March 2001 where AD was discussed.
That means it was either Shelton or Meyers...Meyers took over on Oct. 1 2001. Shelton was 97 to 2001...my bet it's Shelton!
Mark Levin talked about this last night on his show - he had spoken with Weldon a while back, and basically told him "make sure you have the documents, without the documents, this story will go nowhere". it seems as if every document on this was scrubbed - Levin seems to feel that this story - is over, because of that.
Able Danger seems like the precursor to the Total Information Awareness thing that Admiral Poindexter was leading. It may be that the government was doing things that they clearly should not have been doing. Operating outside the law. Accessing information information that they should not. Maybe not.