Able Danger: A Good Question

I am as pro-National Security as one can be, but if important elements of our government aren't communicating, or weren't communicating effectively, the public has a right to know. Consequently, this is a very good question.

Will the press and the public be excluded from this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings concerning a once-secret military intelligence unit called “Able Danger” that identified four of the 9/11 hijackers in 2000?

However, we also need to understand this in the context of the rules and restrictions of what was allowed, or discouraged prior to 2000.

Comments

[TheAlamo]

Interesting.
I wonder how foreigners that have been investigated have to have their information destroyed to "protect" their rights, which is why I am assuming this info was destroyed. (since they are not citizens, they do not have any "rights" under our Constitution).

Not only that, if the pentagon suggests there is nothing to hide because there is nothing, then why secret hearings?

[*flo*]

Get'in Oogly, VERY! Hats off to Chairman Specter arguing his point because the American people do have the right to the truth. Regardless open or close hearing, putting my tax dollars to good use, an investigation into the 9/11 commission/ reports, is necessary. Why particulars were excluded from this report, credibility of witness's, leading to destroyed evidence, questions the 9/11 commission report to be incomplete/bias or fabricated. On previous RWV Able Danger discussion, I noted “a wall of separation”, preventing info sharing between Intelligence and Law Enforcement, Jamie Gorelick, former Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno and the Clinton administration, was the author of this document. The Gorelick document was used as the excuse, to destroy information. Is this legal? Why didn’t the final 9/11 Commission report address the “Gorelick Wall of Separation” that was described in 1995, after the first World Trade Center bombing and before the Oklahoma City bombing?
Does Gorelick's document supersede an
Executive Order 123339,(1981), which Places Final Authority with the President of the United States?

mid page:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/abledanger.asp

its also noted today, the Pentagon refused to allow leader of Able Danger group, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer to testify
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169991,00.html