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September 20, 2005
Pentagon blocks Able Danger testimony
First they had never heard of it, then it was merely a planning program that "ran it's course" in January 2001, now it is so vital to national security it can not be discussing in Congressional hearings.
I'm speechless. The Abu Ghraib photos I can almost understand. But this? Who gave them the power to decide what the American people get to know about the only military program that could have stopped 9/11?
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.The announcement came a day before the officers and intelligence analysts had been scheduled to testify about the program, known as Able Danger, at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bryan Whitman, a Defense Department spokesman, said in a statement that open testimony about the program "would not be appropriate - we have expressed our security concerns and believe it is simply not possible to discuss Able Danger in any great detail in an open public forum." He offered no other detail on the Pentagon's reasoning in blocking the testimony....
Mr. Whitman, the Pentagon spokesman, said that in place of members of the Able Danger team, a senior defense official would be sent to the Wednesday hearing to discuss "what the law and policies are on domestic surveillance and to provide some insights about information-sharing between agencies."
Posted by Mike at September 20, 2005 09:05 PM
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