DETAILS, DETAILS...
Lt Col Tony Shaffer offers a lot of details in this interview re Able Danger. He offers too many details for anyone to go on dismissing the operation or its significance.
Here's one detail about his meeting with the 9-11 Commission in Afghanistan that's sure to stir things up:
SHAFFER: The bottomline was, and the way I phrased it was, “We found two of the three cells which conducted 9/11, to include Atta.” That’s the way I phrased it to them. I don’t know if they didn’t recognize the Atta part, but I did specifically mention two of the three cells which conducted 9/11, and at the end of that I threw in Atta. Because my focus, honestly, was that we found two of the three cells. That was to me the most important factor, rather than focusing on Atta, as an individual. And that was what I told them.---
As I recall, at the end of the meeting, there was silence. People were just silent at what I’d said.
Now, I don’t know how to interpret that, but I do know that two things came out of that meeting, some of which are admitted by the 9/11 Commission now.
First, Zelikow approached me at the end of the meeting and said, “This is important. We need to continue this dialogue when we get back to the states. Here’s my card.”
Now a senior executive handing an [Army] major his card, I would consider that a fairly big indication that “Hey, there’s something to this.”
Second thing, by the 9/11 Commission’s own statement of 12 August, it talks about Dr. Zelikow calling back [to the U.S.] immediately. My understanding from talking to another member of the press is that [Zelikow’s] call came into America at four o clock in the morning. He got people out of bed over this.
Yet the Commission, recall, ended up leaving Able Danger out of its final report entirely because they determined it wasn't "historically significant."
Who did Zelikow wake up to tell them about Able Danger? What did he tell them? What did they tell him? These are details we don't know, but we need to know them.
Read the rest of the interview. It's long but interesting. For one thing, it answers the question of why this story is only coming out now with perfect clarity.