Able Danger Whistleblower Exposes Classified Intel Deletion Scandal

Able Danger: An Off-the-Books Operation

• 💡 Able Danger was an entrepreneurial concept created in 1999 to target al-Qaeda before 9/11, operating as an "off the books" campaign plan.
• 🎯 The mission objective was to map al-Qaeda's global network using open-source intelligence, public records, and advanced data analysis.
• 🚀 It aimed to identify terrorist cells in the US and provide operational intelligence to preemptively disrupt terror plots.

Data Mining and Intelligence Fusion

• 🧠 The operation utilized data mining and bleeding-edge tools to combine open-source and closed-source intelligence, including NSA databases.
• 📊 A key objective was to map the global movement of individuals of interest via mosques, a controversial approach that targeted down to the mosque level.
• ⚠️ The team was reportedly warned about violating intelligence oversight rules regarding the collection of information about US persons.

Suppression and Data Deletion

• 🚫 A whistleblower claims they were ordered to destroy two and a half terabytes of data related to the Able Danger operation.
• 📉 This data reportedly contained dozens of charts detailing connections, cells in various regions, and potential fronts within the US.
• 🏛️ The speaker was allegedly prevented from testifying at a Senate hearing an hour before it was scheduled to begin.

The Push for a National Operations and Analysis Hub

• 🤝 A proposal for a National Operations and Analysis Hub (Noah) was presented in 1999 to fuse intelligence data from various government agencies to combat transnational terrorist threats.
• 🏦 While the Defense Department and FBI supported the initiative, the CIA declined to participate, citing their own program, CI21.
• ❓ The speaker questions why the CIA would not join a fusion center initiative supported by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, especially given the post-9/11 criticism of intelligence data fusion.

Whistleblower Background and Cover-Up Allegations

• 🎖️ The speaker, identified as Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer, was a retired GS-14 and senior intelligence officer with extensive operational experience.
• 🔍 He claims his role in Able Danger was highly classified and has never been officially disclosed, despite being suspended by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 2004 over allegations later resolved in his favor by the Army.
• 🗣️ The narrative suggests that Able Danger became an "inconvenient organization" that uncovered information the "deep state" wanted suppressed, leading to efforts to dismiss their findings and target them.