Confirmed: Able Danger ID of Atta before Bushco Shut it Down

[shraby]

Second Officer Says 9/11 Leader Was Named Before Attacks

By PHILIP SHENON
Published: August 23, 2005
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 - An active-duty Navy captain has become the second military officer to come forward publicly to say that a secret intelligence program tagged the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a possible terrorist more than a year before the attacks.

The officer, Scott J. Phillpott, said in a statement on Monday that he could not discuss details of the military program, which was called Able Danger, but confirmed that its analysts had identified the Sept. 11 ringleader, Mohamed Atta, by name by early 2000. "My story is consistent," said Captain Phillpott, who managed the program for the Pentagon's Special Operations Command. "Atta was identified by Able Danger by January-February of 2000."

His comments came on the same day that the Pentagon's chief spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita, told reporters that the Defense Department had been unable to validate the assertions made by an Army intelligence veteran, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, and now backed up by Captain Phillpott, about the early identification of Mr. Atta.

Colonel Shaffer went public with his assertions last week, saying that analysts in the intelligence project were overruled by military lawyers when they tried to share the program's findings with the F.B.I. in 2000 in hopes of tracking down terrorist suspects tied to Al Qaeda.

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<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/23/134727/558>

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Hmm we need a new Pearl Harbor

MIHOP, this is starting to look increasingly like MIHOP

[arcane1]

4. MIHOP is, in the end...

the ONLY rational, logical explaination

IMO :)

[bowens43]

2. already debunked.

just another rovian attempt to smear clinton....

[shraby]

3. Read the article and analysis after.

You're off base a bit.

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Here's the critical part that nails Bush

<snip>
A small group of Defense Intelligence Agency employees ran the Able Danger operation from fall 1999 to February 2001 - just seven months before the terrorist attacks - when the operation was unceremoniously axed, according to a former defense intelligence official familiar with the program.
<snip>

http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15032471&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6

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I remain skeptical.

[Stephanie]

10. THERE you go

That's the crucial tidbit that's been missing from all the build-up blame Clinton stories. In February they axed it. The same time they were having meetings about invading Iraq according to Treasury Secy whathisname, and the secret energy panel was meeting to divvy up Iraqi oil fields and Hart-Rudman was going in the circular file.

[jsamuel]

9. you can't possibly be that short sighted?

it has not been debunked

Was is nonsense is the Clinton part of it, but it is a true and much more complicated story.

[Obamarama]

5. "If only we had known their names and seat numbers...."

[Stephanie]

11. I believe the title was Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United S

tates

[indepat]

6. What is that whitish puffy stuff coming from the end of that gun?

[Stephanie]

12. no wonder George couldn't leave the house for eight days

nervous breakdown -

[applegrove]

8. The problem is that even if they were under surveillance...who would

have stopped them from getting on a plane when there was no bomb-making materials.

It was an al-Qaeda mind fuck. And Bushy busy with undoing all the damage neocons had wreaked on the middle east & the USA by supporting elites & strongmen instead of democracy. Cheney was obsessed with 'redoing' his legacy. Rumsfield & Wolfie too.

[bpilgrim]

13. doesn't matter

just another drip... in all the right places that shows their INCOMPETENCE at BEST or - one day - their aide at worst.

it was an alCIAduh (neoCONs) mind fuck that the fucking crazies have been fantasizing about for decades.


http://images.globalfreepress.com

peace

[Stephanie]

15. they did nothing

name one thing they did to defend from an attack they knew was coming. they did nothing. they went on VACATION.

[bpilgrim]

14. Clinton NEVER turned down a FISA warrant request, this PC Admin did

lots of questions unanswered and the M$MWs won't dare touch any of it cept for flag waving purposes.

BLOWBACK

peace

[Stephanie]

16. here is the source the kos article is referring to

A small group of Defense Intelligence Agency employees ran the Able Danger operation from fall 1999 to February 2001 - just seven months before the terrorist attacks - when the operation was unceremoniously axed, according to a former defense intelligence official familiar with the program. The former official asked not to be identified.

Bushco Axes Able Danger Feb. 2001 -
http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15032471&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6

[Stephanie]

17. kick

[Stephanie]

18. good morning

:kick: