The critical issue raised in connection with the Defense Department's Able Danger anti-terrorism effort is not whether it identified Mohamed Atta and three individuals in his al-Qaida terror cell a year before the 9-11 attacks. The real concern centers on why the 9-11 commission dismissed — and continues to trivialize — the allegations of Able Danger participants.
The commission's final report established FBI agents in Minneapolis and Phoenix had flagged elements of the plot during the summer of 2001. In this regard, the Able Danger revelations confirm what we already knew about the dysfunctional wall of separation that kept law enforcement and intelligence agencies from sharing information to counter terrorist threats.
AJ Strata has much more. He's not amused by the way this whole matter is being treated. I agree.
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