Why Clinton dismissed Able Danger

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Google Condi Rice Able Danger

[Running_Beastie]

Personally I think Able Danger was on to something. Deliberate lying to get the country involved in a war that their own National Security Council told them would make the US less safe. I'm not so sure Able Danger was that far off the mark.

[Ali]

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050921-102450-4688r.htm

Retired Army Maj. Erik Kleinsmith, former director of the Army Land Information Warfare Center, told the panel he was directed by Pentagon lawyers to delete 2? terabytes of computer data -- the equivalent of one-quarter of the information in the Library of Congress -- on Able Danger in May or June 2000 because of legal concerns about information on U.S. citizens.
Maj. Kleinsmith said keeping the data beyond 90 days would have violated an Army directive limiting the collection of information on U.S. citizens.
The attorney for two Pentagon officials involved in Able Danger testified that the program did not identify Atta as being in the United States, only that he was linked by analysts to an al Qaeda cell in Brooklyn, N.Y.
"At no time did Able Danger identify Mohamed Atta as being physically present in the United States," said Mark Zaid, who represents Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, an intelligence analyst, and J.D. Smith, a defense official, who both claim Able Danger data was mishandled.
"And no information at the time that they obtained would have led anyone to believe that criminal activity had taken place or that any specific terrorist activities were being planned. All they developed were associational links."
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. So, Clinton is resposible for 9/11 because of an Army directive ordering data to be destroyed and the fact that the same operation also held incriminating data on Condi Rice and a former Defense Secretary.

Shit, maybe he's responsible for the Hurricanes, too.

[Ali]

The policies of Clintax, it was his policies.
His policies would not allow inteligence factions to share info. The pentagon knew Atta was here, and could not tell the FBI.READ THE ARTICLE, GIZMO.the program did not identify Atta as being in the United States, only that he was linked by analysts to an al Qaeda cell in Brooklyn, N.Y.
"At no time did Able Danger identify Mohamed Atta as being physically present in the United States," The information was deleted because of an army directive and the fact that prominent people were associated with some dodgy proceedings with the Chinese. This is one of the leamest examples I've ever seen of Republicans trying to blame Clinton for anything.