Talk:Able Danger

message: This WP article is totally bolloxed as the Brits would say.  The guys involved in ABLE DANGER were on record that they had identified the 9/11 plotters and their target package long before 9/11 happened.  Even retired, out-of-the-loop guys like COL David Hackworth had fingered O.B.L. more than a year before 9/11.  That's not a GD conspiracy theory!!  I personally ID'ed what was going to happen, and the consequences (Homeland Security, Iraq invasion, etc.) a full year before 9/11.  I used to be a regular Wikipedian but I stopped because this armpit of a resource is lousy with left-wing-extremists, globalists and liberal 'know-it-all's.  That's my $.02 worth.  You guys prove Orwell was prescient with that whole 'memory hole' thing, just edit Wikipedia and the 'facts' are magically 'fixed' to present what's currently PC.  You pukes make me wanna gag!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.184.127.157 (talk) 16:45, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is BRAVO SIERRA!! 

message: How can anyone take a Wikipedia entry seriously when it directs you to Snopes.com as support  for its assertions?
--James Boka 03:31, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Since when has Snopes.com become a citable source? 

message: In the 30 or so too many mentions of Atta being identified throughout this most bloated, disorganised and dubious of Wikipedia articles (seriously a 5 paragraph intro?) there seems to be some important context missing.
This is the lawyer representing the Able Danger team at the Judiciary Committee hearings “Able Danger and Intelligence Information Sharing” 
"Let me emphasize two specific items for clarification purposes because they have been distorted and invited undue criticism from some."
* "At no time did Able Danger identify Mohammed Atta as being physically present in the United States."
* "No information obtained at the time would have led anyone to believe criminal activity had taken place or that any specific terrorist activities were being planned. Again, the identification of the four 9/11 hijackers was simply through associational activities. Those associations could have been completely innocuous or nefarious. It was impossible to tell which, and the unclassified work of Able Danger was not designed to address that question."
I've found that with 2 clicks via the references listed in this Wikipedia entry. Now let's all wonder why it's left out while every available account implying that he was identified as (a) being in the US, (b) part of a  terrorist cell and (c) a hijacker, is included. 
It's supposed to be an encyclopedia, not your own personal conspiracy theory blog. The fact that anyone and everyone reading it will leave them with a false impression of what the majority of this article concerns means it would be better off being deleted entirely if it's not cleaned up and corrected. Attriti0n 14:29, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whole article misleading about Atta ID 

message: Can someone rewrite this, I am not sure what it is trying to convey:
"The public coverage of the release of these reports left out the fact that the DoD IG report concluded that while Army pre-9/11 data bases were found to contain the name "Atta" in context of a potential terrorism threat, it was not ABLE DANGER related due to the name being found in an Army database; the DoD IG report failing to mention the fact that the Army database in question was the source database for the SOCOM ABLE DANGER team http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/Able_Danger_report.pdf, p.10.." --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:10, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone rewrite this 

message: What makes Able Danger significant is that the 9/11 Commission received testimony about it, but failed to mention it in the report. Yet this fact is not even mentioned in the overlong lede or even in the "overview." And why didn't commission mention it? The only reason given here is the official explanation that AD is "suspect." But it has also been noted that AD undercuts the commission's timeline for Atta. This timeline is the only basis for the claim that Atta could not have been Prague to meet Ani, the Iraqi diplomat there. Kauffner (talk) 04:45, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Prague

message: I would like to remind everybody that wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
In the begininning section of the article i can read that 
"Able Danger was a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early October 1999 by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton, to develop an information operations campaign plan against transnational terrorism."
From that moment on a discussion of how able danger is seen in light of nine eleven goes on.
Please, can somebody who nows more about this topic help to rewrite this article?
What was "able danger"? Whas it a group of people in the above mentioned SOCOM and DIA? Was it a plan how to fight terrorism? Was it a department with its own budget and surveillance possibilities?
As a introduction to the article this is all to vague- and what follows so detailed and special that everybody not familliar with "able danger" and how it is seen/not seen in light of 9/11 inside the U.S. is unable, imhop, to read and unerstand this article.
At least I am. Please let agenda (did they now about 9/11 or not) not forget us that wp first of all shall be encyclopedic best regards --77.76.207.6 (talk) 16:50, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What ''is'' Able Danger 

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