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It seems as though Bush only knows 5 people, and each one seems to have a shady past.
Washington TimesNow we find out why Able Danger was shut down in Feb. 2001, one month after Condi Rice becomes National Security Advisor:
Mr. Weldon said he thinks Able Danger was shut down after a "profile" of Chinese weapons proliferation linked two Americans to Chinese students at Stanford University engaged in technology acquisition for China.
During the profile, the names of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, at the time the Stanford University provost, and former Defense Secretary William Perry were mentioned in the data and created "a wave of controversy," he said.
After Congress sought the data, "tremendous pressure was placed on the Army, because this was a prototype operation, and they shut down the Able Danger operation," Mr. Weldon said.
Intrigue Over Able Danger GrowsI've been puzzling over Able Danger since coming across some obscure articles like this one mentioning Chinese espionage ties to a "university provost and a former high ranking government official," but now those references make sense.
WTOP - Federal News Radio
September 1, 2005
It seems as though Bush only knows 5 people, and each one seems to have a shady past.
i find that cartoon racist in nature...why does she have a big booty?
is that cartoonist saying all african american women have big asses?
and where did you pull the le of your thread from dan?
"Is Condi A Commie Spy?"
or is that one of your ORIGINAL gems...
all i'm asking you to do is add the 2+2 together so that i can see how you got 4.
teach me oh wise one!
F U K IN G ST UP ID post....
how true is that cartoon?
Oddly enough, when you click on the links provided, none of the material quoted in the original post can be found.
But please do not let that stop your dump of unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo.
NBADan is a Commie Idiot!
Intelligence team members ordered silent in 9/11 probe
By Shaun Waterman
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
September 21, 2005
Washington TimesDefense Department lawyers have blocked members of a data-mining intelligence team from testifying today before a congressional panel probing their claims that they identified the September 11 ringleaders as terrorists more than a year before the attacks.
The Senate Judiciary Committee sought testimony from several members of the team -- code-named Able Danger -- as part of an investigation into claims that the project identified Mohamed Atta and three of the other 18 hijackers as tied to al Qaeda in early 2000. Mark Zaid, an attorney for Army Reserve Col. Tony Shaffer, said his client, a Defense Intelligence Agency liaison to the Able Danger team, was told in a letter not to testify.
The letter, which gave no reason for the order, was signed by the principal deputy general counsel for the Defense Intelligence Agency, Robert Berry.
Mr. Zaid said the team members "were told verbally that they would not be allowed to testify" and that the order was put in writing only with regard to his client at his request.
He said that the team leader, Navy Capt. Scott Philpott, civilian analyst James Smith and other members of the team had been denied permission to testify. A Judiciary Committee aide said panel staff members already have interviewed Capt. Philpott and Col. Shaffer. No one at the Department of Defense or the Defense Intelligence Agency returned calls for comment yesterday.
Rep. Curt Weldon, the Pennsylvania Republican who first put the Able Danger team in contact with journalists, was concerned about the order, his staff said. "It is unfortunate that we're trying to get answers ... and the people who could help us get them are not going to testify," said Russ Caso, the congressman's chief of staff.
Hummm...I wonder why the defense department would bar Able Danger team members from testifying...
Ny PostLt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, the veteran Army officer who was the Defense Intelligence Agency liaison to Able Danger, told The Post China "had something to do" with the decision to restructure Able Danger.
Sources said the private contractors, using sophisticated computer software that sifts through massive amounts of raw data to establish patterns, came up with a chart of Chinese strategic and business connections in the U.S.
The program wrongly tagged Rice, who at the time was an adviser to then-candidate George W. Bush, and former Defense Secretary William Perry by linking their associations at Stanford, along with their contacts with Chinese leaders, sources said.
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NewsmaxCondoleezza Rice, national security adviser to President Bush, has recently granted an interview to virtually every reporter but me. Perhaps it is because I keep asking her questions about the Chinese spy in her past.
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Yet it is her years at Stanford working with Perry that have rendered Rice silent. While working at Stanford, she became involved in the most successful Chinese army penetration of the Clinton Defense Department. She will not answer questions about her relationship with Chinese spy Hua Di.
NY TimesWASHINGTON, Sept. 21 - Senators from both parties accused the Defense Department on Wednesday of obstructing an investigation into whether a highly classified intelligence program known as Able Danger did indeed identify Mohamed Atta and other future hijackers as potential threats well before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The complaints came after the Pentagon blocked several witnesses from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a public hearing on Wednesday. The only testimony provided by the Defense Department came from a senior official who would say only that he did not know whether the claims were true.
But members of the panel, led by Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the Republican who heads the committee, said they regarded as credible assertions by current and former officers who took part in the program. The officers have said they were prevented by Pentagon lawyers from sharing information about Mr. Atta and others with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The senators said they would demand that the Pentagon provide more information and they left the door open for more hearings.
"I think the Department of Defense owes the American people an explanation as to what went on here," Mr. Specter said.
Here is a fixed link to the original Washington Times article.
I wish someone would classify Dan from us.
God! How does SW deal with such thought-provoking insight?
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