In the past week we have seen some major news coming out of WTOP channel 9 here in the DC area. Today’s is a real stunner The Pentagon appears to have reversed its position on Able Danger, the Army intelligence collection team. A Pentagon spokesman now says “there’s no reason to doubt the specific recollections” […]

Given the rightful focus on the devastation being wrought by Katrina I was hesitant to put out a round up today, but when I see the Norristown Times Herald with a story I cannot resist. Today the Times Herald discusses things the commission missed or did not report – a theme we will be returning […]

Time magazine came out with an article on Able Danger which is focused on the marginal issue of what the 9-11 commission knew and when did it know it. Personally I want to know what the Able Danger team knew in 2000 and why their efforts to contact the FBI were squashed by legal cowering. […]

For those wondering about the difference between an “Update” and a “Round Up” on Able Danger, updates are my posts on a specific topic while a round up canvasses the news and internet for new or breaking information. This post revisits the Weldon speech on the floor of The House in June 2005, which really […]

UPDATE IV: More updates at the end. Rick Moran from Right Wing Nut House sent me a very informative email regarding the Global Research story I led with today. Hopefully it was clear I had serious doubts about the story, but I could see it mixed enough fact with fiction unsubstantiated information to meet the […]

UPDATE: The MinuteMan informed me (via a wave of referals) that I was on target with the connections between Atta and Rahmed and others. Here is the news from Slate: ‘Able Danger’ Ball Advances: Fox News reports on this morning’s press conference with J.D. Smith, the latest Able Danger figure to step forward. Smith, a […]

OK, I am not sure what this means – it is way too tinfoil hat for me. But at the same time the coincidences are too much to ignore. So I am posting this without any commentary as to what it means. I don’t know if it means anything. In a previous post on Able […]

UPDATE II, 4:10 PM Eastern: From Laura Rozen we find this very insightful post by Eric Umansky on Atta’s name, or names, and when he used which name. Atta’s full name is Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta. That’s what was on his passport and if you look carefully on his U.S. visa issued in […]

I was watching Sen Slade Gorton on O’Reilly make a complete fool of himself by getting out on a limb and saying there is nothing at all to the Able Danger story, and had to come post an update. I believe there is something here because of all the strange responses in 2000 and now. […]

Boy, you take one weekend off to get the kid to college (and have a day at the nearby amusement park and half a day at the beach – it wasn’t all work) and the Able Danger story shifts mightily. Or did it? Reviewing the news and blogs it would seem we are on a […]