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ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR “PERSPECTIVE PERSON OF THE YEAR”

Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer, a veteran Army intelligence officer, has decided to risk his career by speaking out publicly.

Colonel Shaffer said in an interview on Monday night that the small, highly classified intelligence program, known as Able Danger, had identified the terrorist ringleader, Mohamed Atta, and three other future hijackers by name by mid-2000, and tried to arrange a meeting that summer with agents of the Washington field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to share its information.

But he said military lawyers forced members of the intelligence program to cancel three scheduled meetings with the F.B.I. at the last minute, which left the bureau without information that Colonel Shaffer said might have led to Mr. Atta and the other terrorists while the Sept. 11 attacks were still being planned….The Defense Department did not dispute the account from Colonel Shaffer, a 42-year-old native of Kansas City, Mo., who is the first military officer associated with the program to acknowledge his role publicly.

At the same time, the department said in a statement that it was “working to gain more clarity on this issue” and that “it’s too early to comment on findings related to the program identified as Able Danger.” The F.B.I. referred calls about Colonel Shaffer to the Pentagon.

The refusal of the military to share information with the civilian authorities was a result of The WALL put in place by members of the Clinton Justice Department

Right or wrong, Colonel Shaffer’s military career would appear to be over, at least in any normal sense. A brave man has sacrificed his his future professional prospects for what he sees as the good of our nation. Hats off!

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