I'm sorry I don't have time to diary this properly...have to get ready for work, but this is pretty big IMO. I'm not sure if it's in the news this morning to distract us from George's many sins by feeding the Clinton bashers, or to illustrate just what Able Danger was capable of.
Official: Attack on Cole foreseen
"WASHINGTON - A senior Republican congressman said Wednesday that the Pentagon's Able Danger intelligence program had detected preparations for the terrorist attack on the USS Cole but that American military leaders failed to act on the warnings."
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"Two days before the attack, they were jumping up and down because they knew something was going to happen ... at the port of Aden," Weldon told a Capitol Hill news conference.
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"Philpott passed the information up his chain of command at the U.S. Special Operations Command based in Tampa, Fla., Weldon said, adding: "We don't know where the information went to or what they did with it."
John