UPDATE: I see MacRanger and I find ourselves on the same side of an issue again. I couldn’t be in better company. UPDATE II: Seems Powerline is joining us who see no value in pretending FEMA was (a) something it wasn’t and (b) listening to armchair pretend experts. END UPDATE I have found the need [...]

Excellent news. From this Powerline post we find this story: Terror suspects detained in France had been eyeing up the Parisian metro network, an airport and the headquarters of the domestic intelligence service as possible targets, sources close to the investigation said. … Nine people were detained by police early Monday in a series of [...]

The Able Danger story is heading towards a major juncture. MacRanger has information that indicates Weldon is possibly going to get the monies he has wanted to pursue some new data mining ideas. It will not necessarily be the resurrection of Able Danger type activities since it is clear these kinds of technical approaches are [...]

Sorry for being out of pocket folks. Family and work were filling my days recently. Rita and Katrina were very powerful storms which left a lot of destruction in their wakes. America will band together to assist the ravaged areas and our neighbors in need. The question is whether the media-formally-known-as-mainstream and the talking heads [...]

I don’t have a whole lot of time for blogging since today is the twin’s birthday (everything in twos). But I can say I am glad to see Hadley has come out and spoken on the subject finally: National security adviser Stephen J. Hadley yesterday denied receiving a Defense Department chart that allegedly identified lead [...]

Boy, how many “Bin Laden Found” false alarms have we been through? Well, Drudge is splashing a news flash from a CBS report to air on Sunday 60 minutes (hope Bin Laden will stay put long enough to get the program aired): The Pakistani military officers battling al Qaeda along the border with Afghanistan who [...]

UPDATE: Fox News confirms pentagon reversal and five witnesses to testify next week in second round of hearings: The Senate Judiciary Committee said in a statement Friday that the Pentagon now will allow five witnesses to testify. Among those are Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (search), Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott (search) and defense contractor John [...]

Mayor Nagin should be thanking George Bush for pressuring him to halt his plans to bring people back into New Orleans and order the evacuation again – Bush was right to be cautious: Hurricane Rita’s steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city’s lowest-lying neighborhoods [...]

Had a chance to run through some of the Specter hearings. We missed getting just about all of Weldon’s testimony. Obviously there was little senate interest since there were so few senators there. But the picture did clear as I posted yesterday. I am going to try to establish another ‘baseline’ of what looks pretty [...]

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No wonder evacuations have to begin well in advance of landfall when it takes 6 hours to go 47 miles. Check out how Robbie of UrbanGrounds was tracking the snail’s pace evacuation of his brother and family trying to get to his house in Austin: As I posted here, my brother and his family are [...]

Major UPDATE: There are more updates at the end – so keep scrolling. But I was reveiwing the Shaffer interview with Jerry Doyle at QTMonster and came across something that supports the speculation Atta was being tracked by many names: AS: Jerry, I’ve spoken to a lot of folks about this and I think that [...]

Here is the open thread I promised for those fortunate to track the Senate hearings in real time. The lovely webmistress will be checking in throughout the day to moderate comments – so keep it clean and keep it civil please. Your comments will not be posted immediately initially. AJStrata

The Pentagon pulled a really bad stunt today stopping all the military witnesses to Able Danger from testifying to the Senate: 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 [...]

This morning the Washington Times has a precursor on the Senate hearings supposedly happening tomorrow. It is a good review of the last week’s revelations and key questions. However, as with nearly everything related to Able Danger, there is some confusion. The employee who will testify that he destroyed the data will apparently also allege [...]