Able Danger Reheating UpOkay, I kinda left off updates on this story after reading Podhoretz's piece over at The Corner indicating that maybe we all owed the 9-11 Commission an apology. But Captain Ed has been continuing to work the story. Today he has an update that
more sources might be forthcoming:
It sounds like at least two more shoes may drop on Able Danger and the information it provided military intelligence. If the other sources involved in the actual data collection and analysis come forward, expect this to blow up even larger at the expense of the 9/11 Commission who ignored it.Captain Ed links to
this piece by Deborah Orin in the NY Post.
A veteran Army intelligence officer said yesterday the elite military intelligence unit known as Able Danger might have been able to prevent the 9/11 attacks — if it had been allowed to alert the FBI that Mohamed Atta was living in the country.
"My first reaction was, 'We had him.' It was a sinking feeling in my stomach," Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer told The Post in an interview yesterday, describing how he felt after learning that Atta was one of the hijackers.