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Able Danger Secrets Sent to Whistleblower
After revoking the security clearance of Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, a key figure in the ongoing Able Danger ‘information warfare’ controversy, Department of Defense officials - apparently inadvertently - sent at least six classified documents to the whistleblower. The documents - two directly related to the once-clandestine Able Danger operation, which identified Mohammed Atta and other 9/11 hijackers a year before the terror attacks - were among the items found in six boxes of “personal stuff” the Defense Intelligence Agency returned to Shaffer via his attorney, Mark Zaid, according to a source close to the attorney. The source added that DIA officials told Zaid they had spent “15 hours scrubbing” the material to make sure no classified information was contained therein.
The documents DIA returned “confirm and expand the information about the amount of support” Able Danger was getting from another program known as Stratus Ivy - and “included information to confirm that Shaffer had other officers working to support Able Danger,” the source said.
In addition, twenty-six pieces of mail addressed to someone named Domingo A. Romo (and his wife Sandra) - ranging from financial statements to insurance information - were also found among the materials provided to Lt. Col. Shaffer.
The Pentagon scrubbing did have at least some cleansing effects, however. Although DIA did return Shaffer’s leather briefcase, items it once had contained - an Able Danger set of TOP SECRET documents (mission planning order, cover plan, etc.,) as well as some of the briefing books and charts that had been used to brief Pentagon leadership about the program - have all been hidden or destroyed by DIA.
Shaffer was unavailable for comment. His employers at DIA have effectively muzzled him, and told his attorneys their client cannot speak publicly about the Able Danger program - not before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Shaffer had been scheduled to testify last month, and certainly not to reporters.
A second round of Able Danger hearings had been set for October 5, but was postponed indefinitely. A spokesman for Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, says Specter is “still trying to work it out” with DOD to allow hearings to go forward, but thus far the Pentagon remains adamantly opposed to the public dissemination of any more information about the Able Danger program.
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October 10th, 2005 at 9:38 pmI think that it’s time that we connected the dots with respect to the events that led to 9/11 and the on going federal executive administration disinformation ploy. We have documented statements from George W. Bush telling the press that Saddam Hussein tried to kill his father. We have knowledge that Rumsfeld and Cheney approached Bill Clinton for support for their invasion of Iraq in 1998. We have declaration from the web site of the PNAC in 1998 that in order for the American public to accept invading Iraq that there would need to be a catastrophic defining event to polarize the public opinion. From the Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame incident we recognize that the federal executive administration is uneasy to the point of paranoia about federal agents publicly disagreeing with them to the point of sabotaging their own investigation of WMD’s. And we are aware that in order to prevent congress acquiring information from a huge database that documents the relationships of terrorists group, they destroy it and their ability to track these groups to the detriment of the intelligence community. We don’t have a smoking gun pointing to the white houses prior knowledge of the impending 9/11 attack, but we have a behavior pattern indicative of an organization desperately trying to cover it’s tracks. I would say that the DOD’s decision to put the country at peril by destroying vital information in order to protect the president from possible criminal activity is itself criminal. We need to bring charges now before Bush’s packed Supreme Court insulates Bush from any criminal prosecution.
October 11th, 2005 at 12:19 pmI just wanted to appologize for an inaccruacy in a comment I posted yesterday. I implied that “Abel Danger” terrorist information database was destroyed during hte Bush administration’s tenure. I was wrong. “Abel Danger” was dismanteled months before Bush took office, though there was an organizational chart on hte wall of the “Abel Danger head office which included a picture and namce of Mohammed Atta. That chart survived, but I don’t know where it went, or who had seen it or who understood the significance of it.
October 12th, 2005 at 1:14 pmI agree that it is time that we connect the dots, but isn’t that what we’re trying to do here? The problem from where I sit is that there are too many Americans that believe the lies that they have been told. I am appalled at what is going on in this administration and even more appalled at the way the American public seems to buy all of it. I believe that concentrating on the media minions who help to defend and distort the truth is a necessary course to take in changing the opinions of Americans so that we can force charges to be made. Unless we are able to get the message out, they will continue to knock our credibility and we will look like bafoons. Harriet Miars is a key puzzle piece for stacking the Supreme Court and while the right criticizes her, I have read that there are Democrats that are defending her. We need to become very involved in blocking this last nominee, or Bush will have the Supreme Court he needs to stop any charges from sticking.
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October 13th, 2005 at 10:45 pmIf you guys have information to bring out the truth about Abel danger or 9/11. DO IT
You will never have the support of all the county. 50% WANT to believe that BUSH is a knight in shining armor… THe other 50% is willing, intelliglent and will support anyone who is plausible…. This story is out and not on the MSM… YOu need a WEB sight that has live broad casting… People will follow. Major liberal blogs will advertise for you.
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Daniel Elsberg bombed the Nixon administration with the Pentagon papers… Before they were published, who knew?
February 25th, 2006 at 8:43 am