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Able Danger's 'truths'
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Regarding your editorial on the Internet data-mining operation Able Danger and the Clinton administration's inability to get that information from Defense intelligence to the CIA and the FBI, I have some additional questions (" 'Able Danger': Let's find the truth," Jan. 26 and TribLIVE.com):
Why, if this "mistake" lies in the hands of the Clinton administration, is the Bush administration the one trying to destroy the career of Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, one of the men involved with the mission, who is trying to get the story out?
Dig deeper and you will find that his reputation has been "smeared" under the current administration. It makes no sense to me except that the Bush administration also had this information on Mohammed Atta and his cell of terrorists for nine months before 9/11 and did nothing about it.
I guess that's why the Defense Department spent $400,000 of taxpayer's money (according to Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Curt Weldon) to destroy the career of this honorable man and soldier (Shaffer).
And while you're digging, try to find out what happened to the important files on Able Danger that Shaffer personally put in a secure storage area in 2003 (during the Bush administration) but that have now gone missing.
Barbara ClarkManassas, Va.