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| 1 | Weldon, Freeh & Able Danger | archived: ref 400 |
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| CNN (Lou Dobbs) November 18, 2005 |
And then, Congressman Curt Weldon says an investigation into Able Danger could be the most important investigation of our lifetime. One of the nation's former top cops is jumping on board and demanding action as well.... | |||||
| 2 | Senators Accuse Pentagon of Obstructing Inquiry on Sept. 11 Plot | archived: ref 382 |
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| New York Times September 22, 2005 |
Senators from both parties accused the Defense Department on Wednesday of obstructing an investigation into whether a highly classified intelligence program known as Able Danger did indeed identify Mohamed Atta and other future hijackers as potential threats well before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The complaints came after the Pentagon blocked several witnesses from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a public hearing on Wednesday. | |||||
| 3 | Pentagon Blocks Testimony at Senate Hearing on Terrorist | archived: ref 381 |
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| New York Times September 21, 2005 |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 - The Pentagon said today that it had blocked a group of military officers and intelligence analysts from testifying at an open Congressional hearing about a highly classified military intelligence program that, the officers have said, identified a ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a potential terrorist more than a year before the attacks. | |||||
| 4 | Weldon: Atta Papers Destroyed on Orders | archived: ref 383 |
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| AP September 16, 2005 |
A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks, a congressman said Thursday. | |||||
| 5 | Three More Assert Pentagon Knew of 9/11 Ringleader | archived: ref 379 |
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| Reuters (NYT) September 1, 2005 |
Three more people associated with a secret US military intelligence team have asserted that the program identified September 11 ringleader Mohammed Atta as an Al Qaeda suspect inside the United States more than a year before the 2001 attacks, the Pentagon said on Thursday. | |||||
| 6 | Intrigue Over Able Danger Grows | archived: ref 471 |
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| WTOP News August 26, 2005 |
A third contributor to the Able Danger intelligence collection team breaks his silence and corroborates that an elite military unit identified Mohamed Atta as part of an al Qaida cell before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. | |||||
| 7 | Second Officer Says 9/11 Leader Was Named Before Attacks | archived: ref 435 |
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| New York Times August 23, 2005 |
The officer, Scott J. Phillpott, said in a statement on Monday that he could not discuss details of the military program, which was called Able Danger, but confirmed that its analysts had identified the Sept. 11 ringleader, Mohamed Atta, by name by early 2000. "My story is consistent," said Captain Phillpott, who managed the program for the Pentagon's Special Operations Command. "Atta was identified by Able Danger by January-February of 2000." | |||||
| 8 | Navy Officer Affirms Assertions About Pre-9/11 Data on Atta | archived: ref 377 |
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| New York Times August 22, 2005 |
An active-duty Navy captain has become the second military officer to come forward publicly to say that a secret defense intelligence program tagged the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a possible terrorist more than a year before the attacks. | |||||
| 9 | Able Danger man identifies himself | archived: ref 375 |
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| CNN August 17, 2005 |
Publicly identifying himself for the first time, a former member of a classified Pentagon intelligence unit elaborated on what he claims were attempts he made to share information about potential al Qaeda operatives in the United States before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. | |||||
| 10 | 9/11 Commission's Staff Rejected Report on Early Identification of Chief Hijacker | archived: ref 373 |
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| New York Times August 11, 2005 |
The Sept. 11 commission was warned by a uniformed military officer 10 days before issuing its final report that the account would be incomplete without reference to what he described as a secret military operation that by the summer of 2000 had identified as a potential threat the member of Al Qaeda who would lead the attacks more than a year later, commission officials said on Wednesday. | |||||