BANNED BOOK: Pentagon Buys ALL COPIES to Block 911 Inside Job

[DavidSReeves]

On the eve of Sept. 11, Fox News has learned the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has attempted to block a book about the tipping point in Afghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11 data mining project called "Able Danger."

In a letter obtained by Fox News, the DIA says national security could be breached if "Operation Dark Heart" is published in its current form. The agency also attempted to block key portions of the book that claim "Able Danger" successfully identified Mohammed Atta as a threat to the U.S.before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks


Specifically, the DIA wanted references to a meeting between Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer, the book's author, and the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, removed. In that meeting, which took place in Afghanistan, Shaffer alleges the commission was told about "Able Danger" and the identification of Atta before the attacks. No mention was made in the final 9/11 report.

In a highly unusual move, the DIA is now negotiating with the publisher, St. Martin's Press, to buy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of the book to keep it off shelves -- even after the U.S. Army had cleared the book for release.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/09/military-intelligence-attempts-block-book-afghan-war/

[Satyagraha]

I wonder if they'll have book burning on the pentagon lawn?

Specifically, the DIA wanted references to a meeting between Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer, the book's author, and the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, removed. In that meeting, which took place in Afghanistan, Shaffer alleges the commission was told about "Able Danger" and the identification of Atta before the attacks. No mention was made in the final 9/11 report.

[Satyagraha]

Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan -- and The Path to Victory [Hardcover]
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[Libertarian Perspective]

Could there posibly be this book available in e-book format? Since it is not available on the shelves nobody is stopping someone scanning it and releasing it in e-book.

[Satyagraha]

Able Danger adds twist to 9/11
9/11 Ringleader connected to secret Pentagon operation
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050827&articleId=867
by Dr. Daniele Ganser

We bring to the attention of our readers this important analysis of Dr. Daniele Ganser of the Zurich Polytechnic published by the International Relations and Security Network (ISN). Dr Ganser's study is based on official US documents and reports. It  identifies the role of  9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and 3 other hijackers in a secret Pentagon operation. It largely refutes the official US government narrative as presented by the  9/11 Commission.

Four years after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, the revelation of a top secret Pentagon operation adds a new twist to a story about which we still know very little.

For the past four years, we have been told by the administration of George Bush and by the official 9/11 Commission report of Chairman Thomas Kean and Executive Director Philip Zelikow that Egyptian extremist Mohammed Atta was the key player in the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. Atta, according to the Kean report, was the “tactical leader of the 9/11 plot”. He was the pilot who on that dreadful morning flew the first plane, American Airlines 11, into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. It was Atta’s face, on television and in newspapers across the world, that became the symbol of Islamic terrorism. And it was Atta’s name - not the names of any of the 18 other hijackers allegedly lead by Atta on that day - that was cited by international security researchers. Atta was, as the Kean report stresses, “the tactical commander of the operation in the United States”. According to both the Bush administration and the official 9/11 Commission report, he was working on the orders of Osama Bin Laden who, from remote Afghanistan, controlled the entire operation.

Now, almost exactly four years after 9/11, the facts appear to have been turned upside down. We now learn that
Atta was also connected to a top secret operation of the
Pentagon’s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in the US.
According to Army reserve Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Shaffer, a top secret Pentagon project code-named Able Danger had identified Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers as members of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the attacks.

Able Danger was an 18-month highly classified operation tasked, according to Shaffer, with “developing targeting information for al-Qaida on a global scale”, and used data-mining techniques to look for “patterns, associations, and linkages”. He said he himself had first encountered the names of the four hijackers in mid-2000.

Schaffer himself was fully aware of the delicacy of his revelations. As such, he chose to first speak to US lawmaker and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (Republican, Illinois) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (Republican, Michigan). Schaffer said the two had assured him that exposing the secret “was the right thing to do”. “I was given assurances we would not suffer any adverse consequences for bringing this to the attention of the public,” he said.

The conversations with Hastert and Hoekstra took place before Schaffer anonymously leaked the information to the media on 8 August in the offices of Republican Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, the vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees who also supported the exposure of this secret.

Schaffer’s decision to expose Operation Able Danger has given rise to some difficult questions, not the least of which concerns the role of Atta in the top secret operation. It also raises the question of whether anyone in the Pentagon knew in advance what Atta was planning on 9/11.

For now, though, the questions are likely to go unanswered, as the Pentagon claims there is no evidence to support allegations that it had had military intelligence on a 9/11 bomber a year before the attack. The Pentagon has acknowledged the existence of Operation Able Danger, but denies claims that it had identified Atta and three others as early as 1999.

When the “official” facts are turned upside down, we need to go back to the sources and ask: What do we really know about 9/11? Our most important source, Atta himself, is dead. So for now, there is only Schaffer, a 42-year-old native of Kansas City, who worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington at the time of the 9/11 attacks and had insights into the Pentagon’s top secret operation. According to Schaffer, when he informed the FBI and urged them to arrest Atta, the Pentagon’s lawyers intervened and protected Atta for reasons that remain unclear.

The official 9/11 Commission report, which according to its own declaration aimed “to provide the fullest possible account of the events surrounding 9/11” in its 567-page report, fails to mention Operation Able Danger or any other US-based SOCOM operations. On the contrary, in its recommendations as to how the US could be better protected from “terrorists” in the future, the Kean report on page 415 suggests that SOCOM be given larger powers to carry out covert action operations, previously a domain controlled by the CIA.

The Kean commission also recommended better oversight in order “to combat the secrecy and complexity”. Yet, at the same time, we learn from Schaffer that the Kean commission did not provide the full story on 9/11, and specifically on Able Danger. Schaffer, according to his own testimony, had personally informed Zelikow about Able Danger. Yet Zelikow covered up this piece of the puzzle and, to Schaffer’s frustration and disbelief, decided not to include this data on the pretext that it was “not historically relevant”.

If it is true that Zelikow declined to include the information on Able Danger in the Kean report, and if it is true, as Zelikow wrote, that Atta was the “tactical leader of the 9/11 plot”, and if it is furthermore true, as Schaffer publicly explained,
that SOCOM protected Atta prior to his deadly attack on the US,
which claimed 3,000 lives, then the account as provided by the official 9/11 report
is discredited, and we are faced with a sea of lies and cover-ups.

Four years after 9/11, we are presented with facts that are diametrically opposed to the official narrative. While the biggest questions remain unanswered and there is a possibility that they will never be answered, the media would do well by the public to be diligent enough to keep the issue alive and not allow it to be swept under the rug in the face of confusion and complexity.

Dr. Daniele Ganser specializes in secret warfare and is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies. The opinions contained in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN).
The opinions contained in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of the ISN.

[citizenx]

What a fu@#ing deal with Satan.

Anybody that makes such a bargain ought to rot in effing hell, IMO.

Faustian.

Here's some money, now go away.

Sick.

[Satyagraha]

Complete 911 Timeline
The Able Danger Program
Project: Complete 911 Timeline
Open-Content project managed by matt, Paul, KJF, blackmax
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&projects_and_programs=ableDanger

Late December 1998: Data Mining Program Authorized to Go after Bin Laden

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton will later say, “Right after I left SOCOM (Special Operations Command), I asked my successor to put together a small team, if he could, to try to use the Internet and start trying to see if there was any way that we could track down Osama bin Laden or where he was getting his money from or anything of that nature.”

A team of six intelligence officers will be given this task and Shelton will be periodically briefed on the progress of the program. But apparently the team, later to be called Able Danger, will focus on data mining tasks relating to Bosnia and China for most of 1999. [SACRAMENTO BEE, 12/7/2005; US CONGRESS, 2/15/2006]

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[Satyagraha]

WHY IS OPERATION ABLE DANGER SUCH A SECRET??
http://www.erielead.org/node/317
Submitted by swiftdon on January 5, 2006 - 5:48pm.

After all the contradictory answers, it is clear that the Bush Administration does not want Americans to know about Able Danger. Who can doubt that Al Qaeda and most foreign intelligence agencies know what was going on? The following is what little we know. Who can blame us from drawing troubling inferences?

In 1999, the Pentagon Special Operations Command established Able-Danger, a secret program, to gather information on Al Qaeda. In that year, it had identified Mohammed Atta, the architect of 9-11, and three others as members of the cell that attacked the World Trade complex in 1993. .Atta would mastermind the 9-11, and the other three were also among the hijackers.

Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who worked at the DIA, became aware of Atta and his three colleagues in mid-2000. Shaffer informed the FBI of what was known about these four Al Quada operatives. He urged the arrest of Atta, but Pentagon lawyers became involved to prevent the arrest. The lawyers claimed they had problems recommending action against someone holding a green card. But Atta did not have a green card or a valid entry visa. He came to the US three times on a visitor’s visa. The Pentagon is now denying that it knew anything about these people before 9-11.

When the Kean Commission came into being, Shaffer personally informed its executive director, Dr. Philip Zelikow, about Able-Danger and what was known about Atta and the three other hijackers. Zelikow did not give this information to the commission and did not include it in the document. Zelikow said it was "not historically relevant."1 Zeliknow had been on loan from the White House National Security Office and is now special counsellor to his friend, Secretary of State Rice.

Eventually the Army destroyed the Able Danger files on Atta claiming this was necessary because he was a "US person" under the meaning of legislation that said the military could only retain intelligence information on US persons for 90 days. In February and March of 2001, Able Danger was shut down by the Defense Department, only to be reactivated later. Shaffer, a Bronze medal winner, lost his security clearance as well as his DIA job. He was forbidden to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee. However, this decision was later reversed

While in Afghanistan, Shaffer told what he knew to Dr. Philip Zelikow, then US ambassador there. Zelikow expressed great interest in the information but avoided seeing Shaffer when the colonel attempted to contact him in Washington.

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[Satyagraha]

jimd3100 has posted a lot of information on this forum about Able Danger:

Able Danger Project moved to Raytheon
in 9/11 Material & Research

Alex Jones Interviews Lt Col. Anthony Shaffer
in 9/11 Material & Research

Bush- "That is one Terrible Pilot"
in 9/11 Material & Research

9/11 Investigation The Cover up and Lies
in The Cover-Up

2 Indy Films “Reflecting Pool” and "Able Danger" Get It Right On 911

Proof Atta never got on Plane on 9/11
in Hijackers / Patsies
in Documentaries / Video / Audio / Documentation

[tritonman]

Wow , that Curt Weldon speech on C-CPAN is full of interesting tidbits and I am not even half of the way through.   If you've not seen it you should do so now.
Rep Curt Weldon's censored press conference on Able Danger.  Herein lies the gritty, damning details:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/189839-1

[tritonman]

By the way, Kiwiwclaire had posted links to youtube of Alex's interview with Shaeffer on the same thread but it has now been taken down from youtube,  Perhaps we can get a fresh link up there?
Ok, I found a working link for the Shaeffer interview/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V01Ol2Nk-Tk

[Anti_Illuminati]

Wow , that Curt Weldon speech on C-CPAN is full of interesting tidbits and I am not even half of the way through.   If you've not seen it you should do so now.
Rep Curt Weldon's censored press conference on Able Danger.  Herein lies the gritty, damning details:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/189839-1

This is a must see asap.  Here's a quote from the beginning of the video. 

"I'm Congressman Curt Weldon, thanks for coming out today. Reluctantly I stand to provide further information on the Able Danger situation.

When I first started this effort back in June, when the full Able Danger story came to my attention, I said it could be anything from gross incompetence, to a coverup bigger than Watergate.

I today, will tell you after months of looking at this issue that there's a coverup that's taken place, and continues to take place, and therefore I'm asking for a criminal investigation, as of this date."

[Satyagraha]

Looking out on the web for information about Curt Weldon since his CSPAN interview, and finding (no surprise) he was subsequently skewered in the mainstream press. Meanwhile, the perpetrators of 911 are unscathed by the slander of the NWO's media lapdogs.

[A K]

Further Proof the Pentagon - and foriegn governments - had advanced knowledge of 9-11 attacks, and that war games may have even been a cover:

The Amalgam Virgo 01 exercise book, some debunkers are now trying to say it is fake.  It is here at:


http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/AmalgumVirgo.pdf

It is discussed here at:

http://911exposed.org/Almalgam.htm


The document was a creation of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) for a power point type slide show for Pentagon brass, heads of civilian agencies, and leaders of military industrial companies. So the government did think about and plan for hijack crash scenarios PRIOR to 9-11.

What I see just now is that this briefing book for Amalgam Virgo 01, which includes one page called "hijack scenario" and one page with "SUICIDE" planes - and perhaps also the plans for Amalgam Virgo 02 (two airline hijackings),  and Amalgam Warrior (no idea what it was about) set for 9/11/01, and Global Guardian reset for 9/11/01 and Vigilant Warrior which sent East Coast fighter jets to Alaska and Canada on 9/11/01 - were also made available to "friendly" FORIEGN governments, agencies and companies! This may very well include countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Israel.

This presents a rather disturbing chance that ALQ/ISI/Mossad/Saudi Intel knew about our exercise scenarios and the DATE for them!  Puts a whole new light on the Atta phone call to KSM that the "match" was set for 9/11.   Did "they" pick the date knowing it was set for exercises, or did "we" set the exercise knowing they had picked the date?  Global Guardian, which put three E-4B's in the air apparently with "look but don't touch" orders for NY bound hijacks, was moved from October to 9/11/01.  In any event, the 9/9/01 OBL phone call to his mother - "something big in two days then you won't hear from me for a long time" - certainly let US intel know the 9/11/01 date, and we did NOT cancel the exercises that sent East Coast fighter jets to Alaska and Canada, and three Andrews AFB jets, minutes from the Pentagon, down South.
 

If you go the NDIA website, check out some of their stuff, it looks like it. See
http://www.ndia.org/Content/ContentGroups/Divisions1/Strike,_Land_Attack_and_Air_Defense/NGCS_Briefing.pdf

The Amalgam Virgo 35 page briefing document was June 2001 Strike Land Air Attack Defense (SLAAD) committee powerpoint slide presentation made to the military, defense contractors, federal agencies and others. This is why it does not look like a military FX briefing.

National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
The Strike, Land Attack and Air Defense Division (SLAAD)
The more than one hudred page study that was the basis for the Amalgam Virgo PDF document is Volume 2: Emerging Cruise Missle Threat
http://tinyurl.com/6jko7

Background Information from NDIA Mission Statement
http://tinyurl.com/5raoa

Quote:

The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) was founded March 1, 1997. It began on that date as a result of a merger between the former American Defense Preparedness Association (ADPA), which was founded in 1919, and the National Security Industrial Association (NSIA), which was founded in 1944. The new NDIA is a non-partisan, non-profit international association with offices in Arlington, VA.

The association’s membership base consists of over 1,100 corporate members and more than 29,000 individuals from the entire spectrum of the defense and national industrial bases, from government and from foreign nations with whom the United States, through DoD, has a Memorandum of Understanding.
From National Defense Magazine
http://tinyurl.com/6g6tj


From 911 Commission Testimony

Quote:

Richard Ben-Veniste, Commissioner: Well, obviously, it would be hard to imagine posturing for the exact scenario but isn’t it a fact, Sir, that prior to September 11th, 2001, NORAD had already in the works, plans to simulate in an exercise, a simultaneous hijacking of two planes in the United States.

Maj. Gen. Craig McKinle: Col. Scott, do you have any data on that? I’m not aware of that, Sir. I was not present at the time.

Richard Ben-Veniste, Commissioner: That was operation Amalgam Virgo.

Col. Alan Scott: Yes, Sir. Specifically, operation Amalgam Virgo, which I was involved in before I retired, was a scenario using a Third-World United, not United, uninhabited aerial vehicle launched off a rogue freighter in the Gulf of Mexico. General Arnold can back me up, at the time, one of our greatest concerns was the proliferation of cruise missile technology and the ability for terrorists groups to get that technology and get it close enough to our shores to launch it. In fact, this exercise, in this exercise we used actual drone, MQM 107 drones, which are about the size of a cruise missile to exercise our fighters and our radars in a Gulf of Mexico scenario.

Richard Ben-Veniste, Commissioner: You are referring to Amalgam ’01, are you not?

Col. Alan Scott: Yes, Sir.

Richard Ben-Veniste, Commissioner: I’m referring to Amalgam ’02, which was in the planning stages prior to September 11th, 2001, Sir. Is that correct?

Col. Alan Scott: That was after I retired and I was not involved in ’02.

Richard Ben-Veniste, Commissioner: Will you accept that the exercise involved a simultaneous hijacking scenario?

Col. Alan Scott: I was not involved in ’02.

Maj. Gen. Craig McKinley: Sir, I do have some information on ’02, if you would allow me to read it for the record?

Richard Ben-Veniste, Commissioner: Please.

Maj. Gen. Craig McKinley: Amalgam Virgo, in general, ’02, was an exercise created to focus on peacetime and contingency NORAD missions. One of the peacetime scenarios that is and has been a NORAD mission for years is support to other government departments. Within this mission falls hijackings. Creativity of the designer aside, prior to 9/11, hijack motivations were based on political objectives, ie: asylum or release of captured prisoners or political figures. Threats of killing hostages or crashing were left to the scriptwriters to invoke creativity and broaden the required response for players.

[oyashango]

Pentagon aims to buy up book

By Peter Finn and Greg Miller
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 10, 2010

The Defense Department is attempting to buy the entire first printing - 10,000 copies - of a memoir by a controversial former Defense Intelligence Agency officer so that the book can be destroyed, according to military and other sources.

"Operation Dark Heart," which was scheduled to be published this month by St. Martin's Press, recounts the adventures and frustrations of an Army reservist, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who served in Afghanistan in 2003, a moment when the attention of Washington and the military had shifted to Iraq.

Shaffer, who is now a senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies in Washington, describes a number of planned covert operations, including an aborted cross-border surveillance operation using sophisticated eavesdropping technology that targeted high-level al-Qaeda operatives based in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

The operation was shut down by military officials concerned about offending Pakistan, according to Shaffer's account.

Shaffer's book was reviewed and cleared in writing by the Army Reserve earlier this year, but this summer the Defense Intelligence Agency objected to the use of the names of American intelligence officers, among other issues.

A senior Pentagon official said that the DIA obtained a copy of the manuscript in mid-July, adding that the agency "did a quick review" and found "some issues we were very concerned with." The agency then referred the matter to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which distributed the manuscript to other agencies, presumably including the CIA, "all of whom had major objections to things in the book," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The official said the Defense Department "sent up a team to talk with the publisher some time ago," and has been negotiating an agreement that might allow the Pentagon to purchase already printed copies of the book and permit a subsequent version to go forward as long as it complies with U.S. government requests.

Both sides now appear to have agreed on the contents of the second printing, but negotiations are focused on what to with the 10,000 copies already published.

The Pentagon is now negotiating with Shaffer's publisher to buy the entire first print run, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. The Pentagon's plan to destroy all 10,000 copies of the initial printing was first reported Thursday night by the New York Times.

A new print run, without the disputed passages, is being prepared by the publisher. Meanwhile, the first printing is sitting in a warehouse in Virginia. Several dozen review copies of the first edition have already been circulated to media outlets, including The Washington Post.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090907747.html

[Hawkwind]

i actually read this in the NYT a few days ago with no mention of able danger or 9/11 just leaked "security procedures" but i gave a second glance because they usually dont do this unless its a secret the REALLY need to cover up and something didnt sound right, lo and behold i found the thread here and all my questions were confirmed. the publisher should be ashamed, even though they are getting astronomical money they are also selling out there fellow humans aswell.


wheres wiki leaks when you need them huh? surely excerpts from an ebook isnt that hard to find

[jofortruth]

http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Dark-Heart-Frontlines-Afghanistan/dp/0312612176/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284225358&sr=8-1

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/us/10books.html

[able]

it seems people are thinking along the lines that they are creating fake demand for a book that reinforces the 19 Muslims official lihop story.

even mike from what really happened is running with that.

Folks, this is a silly propaganda stunt. By claiming to oppose the book and buy it up, the government hopes you will view the book as containing something the government does not want you to read, so that you will accept the claim as fact.

That the book is pushing the official "Arabs did 9-11" myth is your first warning sign.

The second is history. In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. died is a highly suspicious plane crash. Shortly after, the The July 26th, 1999 issue of Newsweek was literally blocked from the news stands. There was no case of a rush to buy up all copies; the magazine was literally ordered off the delivery trucks and back to the warehouses for destruction. There was no huge media release of this erasure of the issue. The official story was that Newsweek wanted to replace the cover to deal with the plane crash, but that specific issue never appeared on the stands. What finally came out was that the issue had included an article in which John F. Kennedy Jr. had announced his intentions to run for the Senate seat later occupied by Hillary Clinton. Had Kennedy not died, there is no question that with his family name, good looks, and absence of cattle-trades and Mena in his background, he would have won.

So, the fact that the Pentagon buy up of this book is getting headline treament tell you this is a staged psyop to re-sell the official "Arabs did 9-11, honest!" story.

[jimd3100]

it seems people are thinking along the lines that they are creating fake demand for a book that reinforces the 19 Muslims official lihop story.

even mike from what really happened is running with that.

I don't by into that. Am I really supposed to believe they would go to all this trouble to "try and convince people Arabs were involved in 9-11". And help Shaffer sell his book? Uh.....people are already convinced of that. And the Pentagon is NOT wanting to give Shaffer more attention or help him....they took away his Security Clearance and tried to ruin his career when he went forward to expose how Able Danger had discovered the terror cells in America before 9-11 and was pulled off and told to STFU. He told the 9-11 Commission the Gov was aware of these people before 9-11 and he was wanting to stop them. He supports a New Investigation. The Commission didn't mention that of coarse, and then the pentagon went after him and then the Republican party went after Congressman Weldon (one of their own) who was trying to get people to see what the pentagon was doing to Shaffer for being a whistle-blower.

LIHOP MIHOP is crap. BS to divide the "truth movement".

[Scootle]

LIHOP MIHOP is crap. BS to divide the "truth movement".

I agree... the world isn't black or white. It's a bit of both. The demolition of the WTC clearly points to "MIHOP", but the stand downs etc. point to "LIHOP". But those who allowed it to happen, were allowing the people who made it happen to make it happen. And those people who made it happen, at the highest levels, were beyond Al Qaeda. So it was LIHOP and MIHOP.