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Transparent Grid: Anthony Shaffer, who has been on paid administrative leave from the Defense Intelligence Agency since his security clearance was suspended in March 2004, said in a telephone interview that a Navy officer and a civilian official affiliated with the Able Danger program told him after the attacks that Atta and other hijackers had been included on a chart more than a year earlier. (via Cosmos)

ReidBlog: “For whatever bizarre reasons, he didn’t pass on the information.”The State Department, where Zelikow now works as a counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said he was traveling and unavailable for comment.Drum, who admits to being agnostic on the Able Danger tale, points out that Kurt Weldon has made something of a hobby out of the data mining issue, and may have an axe to grind in pushing the Atta in Data story, and he speculated that the whole thing was being plussed up a bit (perhaps by the "bored press corps seeking juicy August stories during the Congressional recess and clinging to anti-war protesters for lack of access to Natalee Holloway's mom... Damn you, Greta Van Susteren...!!!!) (via Cosmos)

Political Strategy - Politics, Strategies, Tactics, News and Opinion: Add that to the information being kept from the 9/11 commission by some its members (at least one of whom, Zelikow, is now a member of the Bush Administration), the White House's eighteen-month battle against forming the commission, and its efforts to be uncooperative with the commission once it was formed, and you get the sense that the Bush crew could have prevented the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, chose not to, and then tried to cover-up its decision. (via Cosmos)

The Washington Monthly: Able Danger has the potential to be an interesting story, except nobody appears interested in bringing out the kind of information that would make it interesting, if it exists. And, most likely, that is because that information -- for instance, information that would support the contention that Able Danger produced reliable intelligence information that was withheld, or, alternatively, that Able Danger was an illegal domestic intelligence operation conducted by the military, is either not available, or contrary to the interests of the people selling the story, which is being advanced for reasons other than its merit. (via Cosmos)

 [Bespacific.com] beSpacific: E-Government Archives: "The data for our analysis consist of an assessment of 1,935 national government websites for the 198 nations around the world...Among the sites analyzed are those of executive offices...legislative offices...judicial offices...Cabinet offices, and major agencies serving crucial functions of government, such as health, human services, taxation, education, interior, economic development, administration, natural resources, foreign affairs, foreign investment, transportation, military, tourism, and business regulation...The most highly ranked nations include Taiwan, Singapore, United States, Canada, Monaco, China, Australia, Togo, and Germany."

 [Spy.org.uk] Spy Blog: Communications Data Privacy Archives: The Home Office simply does not seem to have bothered to think through whether or not the fact that someone who has been subjected to a Control Order, but who has not breached it and thereby committed the criminal offence of breaching a Control Order, should or should not have this data recorded on a criminal record or police intelligence database, which may then be disclosed to future potential employers via the Criminal Records Bureau Enhanced Disclosure. A Control Order is not an Anti-Social Behavior Order (ASBO), but that is obviously where some of this legislation has been cut and pasted from.

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