Pentagon unable to validate claims about exclusive information on Sept. 11

[Judi Lynn]

Last modified Monday, August 22, 2005 8:30 PM PDT

Pentagon unable to validate claims about exclusive information on Sept. 11 hijacker

By: Associated Press Wire Reports -

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has been unable to validate claims that a secret intelligence unit identified Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta as a terrorist more than a year before the attacks, a Defense Department spokesman said Monday.

Larry Di Rita said that some research into the matter continues, but thus far there has been no evidence that the intelligence unit, called "Able Danger," came up with information as specific as an officer associated with the program has asserted.

"What we found are mostly general references to terrorist cells," Di Rita said, without providing detail.

That officer, Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, said Able Danger identified as terrorists Atta and three other future Sept. 11 hijackers in 2000. But, Shaffer said, military lawyers stopped the unit from sharing the information with the FBI out of concerns about the legality of gathering and sharing information on people in the United States.
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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/08/23/news/nation/82205194151.txt

[ourbluenation]

1. Does this mean the freeps will take down ABLE tab from top of page????

Bwahahahahaha!!!!

[jsamuel]

2. dupe

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

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