If you want to get the skinny on the hearings, you've got to turn to the smaller media outlets or the bloggers.
Curt at Flopping Aces points out some juicy tidbits about Able Danger first noted by AJ Strata. Most of the tidbits relate to Stephen Cambone, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
AJ thinks Cambone also called Able Danger a success:
Cambone calls Able Danger a success because it was used in ‘the campaign’ or military planning exercise. I once worked on those planning systems collectively called GCCS. So what this comment tells me is Able Danger did its prime mission - it identified Al Qaeda members and cells so they could be taken out. What Cambone is saying is Able Danger played a role in our rolling up of Al Qaeda world wide, in Afghanistan, in places like Yemen. It means its impact was quite positive in the end. That could explain why so many have tolerated those crude acts in 2000. Able Danger might just of allowed us to quickly find and neutralize many, many Al Qaeda members after 9-11, and may have led us to folks like Shaikh Mohamed Khalid. Inside the intel community, Able Danger’s success could be legend for all we know. All speculation, but Cambone was pretty clear about the respect of this program and where it products were used.
Vi had liveblogged the hearings, which can be found here.* [updated to include link]
For the latest blogging on Able Danger, see: Technorati: war on terror, spying, patriot act, NSA, CIA,
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