Able Danger
SUMMARY
The data-mining unit that, officers testified, flagged the hijackers a year early. Its charts were ordered destroyed.
FULL DOSSIER
Able Danger: a pre-9/11 Army data-mining effort; Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and others testified (2005) it had identified Atta's cell in 2000 and that lawyers blocked passing it to the FBI; the DoD IG (2006) found no documentary support and witnesses' recollections unreliable — while acknowledging the program's charts were destroyed in routine purges. The node holds the unresolvable shape: sworn memories of a warning, against an archive that was legally shredded. Links the 28 pages and put-options files in the 9/11 foreknowledge cluster.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01Shaffer testimony (2005)
02DoD IG report (2006)
03Weldon congressional record
CROSS-REFERENCED FILES
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