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  • Pentagon Blocks Able Danger Testimony

    09/21/2005 3:08:42 AM PDT · by ovrtaxt · 66 replies · 2,587+ views
    Newsmax ^ | Sept. 21, 2005 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
    With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005 12:55 a.m. EDTPentagon Blocks Able Danger Testimony Pentagon lawyers have ordered five members of the Able Danger intelligence team not to testify at an open Senate in hearing scheduled for Wednesday morning about information they developed on lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta a year before the 9/11 attacks. "We have been told I cannot testify tomorrow," Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. "We have been told to stand down." Lt. Col. Shaffer, who was the Defense Intelligence Agency's liaison...
  • Rumsfeld Ordered Shaffer and Philpott Not to Testify

    09/20/2005 8:09:20 PM PDT · by vadkins · 132 replies · 3,996+ views
    QT Monster's Place ^ | 9/20/2005 | vadkins
    Transcript of the Lt. Col. Shaffer interview on the Jerry Doyle show on 9/20/2005. Jerry Doyle: Lt. Col. welcome to the program. Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer: Thank you sir, good to be on with you. I appreciate it. JD: I know that the last time you had sent me some communiques that the Defense Intelligence Agency had actually had formally revoked your Top Secret security clearance. I thought that was highly coincidental in light of the fact that this testimony is supposed to start tomorrow. AS: Well it's interesting that you should mention that. Yes, I believe, as does my...
  • Inside Able Danger – The Secret Birth and Untimely Death of a U.S. Military Intelligence Program

    09/02/2005 7:10:43 AM PDT · by mal · 17 replies · 1,186+ views
    In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with GSN on August 23, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, the military intelligence operative who collaborated with Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) to draw worldwide attention to the Able Danger intelligence unit, described Able Danger’s origins, explained how it tracked terrorists as they visited individual mosques around the world, discussed the CIA’s refusal to cooperate with the program, acknowledged the supporting technical role played by the Raytheon Company, and described Able Danger’s ultimate demise.
  • Enabled Danger

    08/24/2005 5:16:29 AM PDT · by conservativecorner · 7 replies · 547+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | August 24, 2005 | Unknown
    9-11: Officially, the government says it had no idea beforehand that people were plotting terror against the U.S. But recent comments from seemingly credible sources suggest that might not be true. Both the Pentagon and the 9-11 commission have now officially denied claims made by Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., that a U.S. military spy program dubbed Able Danger had identified leader Mohammed Atta and three other 9-11 attackers as members of an active al-Qaida cell operating in the U.S. First, Weldon's seemed like a wild story, and Weldon was roundly criticized for lacking proof. Though vice chairman of the House...
  • AFP: 9/11 ringleader was 'identified' in early 2000: US Navy officer

    08/23/2005 10:07:10 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 9 replies · 741+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 8/23/05 | AFP - Washington
    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US Navy captain said that a top secret US Defense Department intelligence operation had identified Mohammed Atta a year before the Egyptian led the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. Navy Captain Scott Philpott said the top secret US program called "Able Danger" had identified Atta as an Al-Qaeda member in early 2000, according to Fox News. "Atta was identified by Able Danger in early 2000," Philpott -- who worked on the program -- was quoted as saying in a statement to Fox News. Philpott's statement appeared at odds with the Pentagon's position...