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Article: Five members of "Able Danger," a Defense Department intelligence program, have said that Mohamed Atta was identified as a potential terrorist long before the 9/11 attacks.(intelligence reports management)(Brief Article)
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- September 26, 2005
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Five members of "Able Danger," a Defense Department intelligence program, have said that Mohamed Atta was identified as a potential terrorist long before the 9/11 attacks. The Pentagon has found no documentary corroboration that this is so, although its spokesman recently conceded--conveniently--that corroborating documents may have been destroyed. Why might we have lost Atta? Prior to 9/11, the Defense Department strictly interpreted regulations forbidding the collection even of open-source material on "U.S. persons," a bizarre term whose precise definition includes, among others, legal ...