Everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask, or the answers were classified…) about the controversial Able Danger data mining project, which identified four 9/11 hijackers a year before the terror attacks.
Lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui, the admitted terrorist conspirator who pleaded guilty to six conspiracy charges but insisted he was not part of the Sept. 11 plot, are making moves to inject the Able Danger intelligence controversy into Moussaoui’s forthcoming sentencing trial in an attempt to stave off a death sentence for their client.
“Eric Alterman is simply not a serious person —- and I’m writing about a very serious issue,” says Time columnist Joe Klein, in response to Eric Alterman’s recent ad hominem attack in The Nation, wherein he dubs Klein one of the mainstream media’s “most egregious offenders against journalistic standards and simple honesty.”
Is Kirk Lippold, commander of the ill-fated USS Cole, the latest career military officer to be victimized by the political miasma now surrounding the controversial Able Danger intelligence program? Although Lippold lacked “the specific intelligence” to prevent the October, 2000 al-Qaeda attack on the Cole, his superiors did not.
By Rory O’Connor, MediaChannel.org
