The 9/11 Commission was able to track Atta and his cell and the other 9/11 co-conspirators after the fact.
They have extensive timelines, know who and where the attacks were planned: basically everything.
So, why wouldn't Able Danger be able to find out enough information before the attacks.
All any intelligence agency would have needed is the names of people to watch out for, which Able Danger had. I once crossed the border from Canada and the border guards knew every purchase I made with my credit card on that very same day.
What I want to know is if the 9/11 Commission did any investigating on their own, or did they rely solely on information coming into them.
If Able Danger was able to track Atta to the Brooklyn cell and perhaps, according to the Pittsburg Gazette today, to meeting with an Iraqi intel officer in Prague before 9/11, using open sources, why couldn't the 9/11 Commission do the same?
Also, why was the woman who created The Wall which didn't let intelligence agencies talk to each other, given responsibility on the 9/11 Commission to decide what information got sent to the full Commission, which was itself in chargae of determining why intelligence agencies didn't talk to each other?
It's the most senseless exercise I've ever seen.