Posted on 09/10/2010 1:39:09 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
On the eve of Sept. 11, Fox News has learned the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has attempted to block a book about the tipping point in Afghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11 data mining project called "Able Danger."
In a letter obtained by Fox News, the DIA says national security could be breached if "Operation Dark Heart" is published in its current form. The agency also attempted to block key portions of the book that claim "Able Danger" successfully identified hijacker Mohammed Atta as a threat to the United States before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks........
Click here to read the full DIA letter (pdf)
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
"...On September 21, 2006, The Washington Post reported that a Defense Department investigation into Able Danger found that Able Danger did not identify Mohamed Atta or any other hijacker before the September 11 attacks, and that a widely discussed chart was "a sample document passed to the military as an example of how to organize large amounts of data," and was created after 9/11...."
They are going to a lot of extra trouble to suppress a book about a project they trashed years ago.
They are going to a lot of extra trouble to suppress a book about a project they trashed years ago.
Because that would make it Clinton’s fault. Cant have that!
What would the “truthers” think?
No one likes egg on the face. Not even spooks.
Right! It does smell.
The good General has provided Retired Lt Colonel Shaffer tons of free publicity. Good on him!!!!!!!!
Trying to suppress the book is the surest way to guarantee brisk sales. The Able Danger Project was huge news around FR back in the day.
Sounds like DIA is running a memory hole operation. What meeting? Never took place. The problem is that there’s always a paper trail these days and the memory hole trick doesn’t appear to be working.
The intelligence community gets themselves into big trouble when they go beyond protecting national secrets and try to protect political asses.
The permanent government in Washington D.C. will always “circle the wagons” to defend its own bureaucratic history and it will seek to get the elected leaders to help it do so, in typical “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” fashion.
All they have done is make the story bigger.
Recalling Congressman Kurt Weldon.
The new mantra they fall on is “it puts the troops in danger.”
Waiting to hear it in in this case. I am sickened by anyone using that line to cover their own ass.
Curt Weldon ping
Glad you brought him up! To think we lost him for Sestak.
i thought they DID identify Atta...and that’s why everything suddenly got lost...
The Ruling Class is not Happy .
Pentagon aims to buy up book (LTC Anthony Shaffer - Able Danger)
The powers that be were arrayed against Weldon. The Pentagon protects it’s own at the expense of Americans.
No, Professor Ahmed, the Founders Were Not So Fond of Islam
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Posted on Fri 10 Sep 2010 08:05:24 AM PST by Kaslin
While doing the MSM circuit this week, American University professor Akbar Ahmed told some whoppers about Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin
Akbar Ahmed, the chair of Islamic studies at American University, has advised many government officials, including General Petraeus, Richard Holbrooke, and George W. Bush. He speaks regularly on BBC and CNN, and has appeared on many U.S. shows, including Oprah and Nightline.
To oppose the “burn the Quran” event planned by Pastor Terry Jones, Ahmed wrote an editorial for CNN in which he stated:
Not only are the actions of Jones contrary to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, but they are also against the ideals of the American Founding Fathers.
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The Founding Fathers read and honored the same Quran that Jones is now seeking to burn.
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[John Adams, America’s second president] showed the utmost respect for Islam, naming the Prophet Mohammed as one of the greatest truth seekers in history.
These statements are utterly opposed by the facts.
John Adams said absolutely nothing of the kind. Correspondence from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson on July 16, 1814, reveals John Adams’ true feelings about Islam: Adams states that Mohammed is “a military fanatic” who “denies that laws were made for him; he arrogates everything to himself by force of arms.”
In this Fox news exclusive in the comment section, one of their posters (idaho45) has posted a lengthy comment about Bill Clinton’s chinagate and Senator Inhofe’s chinagate speech: Scroll back to yesterday and read: *Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 2:22 PM*
The Congressional Record:/Excerpt
77 . ABLE DANGER FAILURE -- (House of Representatives - October 19, 2005)
Excerpt of Curt Weldon:
What I did not know, Mr. Speaker, up until June of this year, was that that secret program called Able Danger actually identified the Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda in January and February of 2000, over 1 year before 9/11 ever happened. In addition, I learned that not only did we identify the Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda, but we identified Mohamed Atta as one of the members of that Brooklyn cell along with three other terrorists who were the leadership of the 9/11 attack.
I have also learned, Mr. Speaker, that in September of 2000, again, over 1 year before 9/11, that Able Danger team attempted on three separate occasions to provide information to the FBI about the Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda, and on three separate occasions they were denied by lawyers in the previous administration to transfer that information.
Mr. Speaker, this past Sunday on ``Meet the Press,'' Louis Freeh, FBI Director at the time, was interviewed by Tim Russert. The first question to Louis Freeh was in regard to the FBI's ability to ferret out the terrorists. Louis Freeh's response, which can be obtained by anyone in this country as a part of the official record, was, Well, Tim, we are now finding out that a top-secret program of the military called Able Danger actually identified the Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda and Mohammed Atta over a year before 9/11.
And what Louis Freeh said, Mr. Speaker, is that that kind of actionable data could have allowed us to prevent the hijackings that occurred on September 11.
We need Sestak gone, and Curt or someone with his stones in there!
Thanks for the ping, Trib.
What is the DIA? Is this some new organiztion that scheming Obama and the democras have come up with? I’ve never heard of this DIA?
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