A Live Discussion: The Able Danger Program (Defense Intelligence Agency)

A video i made on November 12,2021. 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.One of the program's participants was Anthony Shaffer, a US Army and Defense Intelligence officer, who disclosed the covert operation to lead director of the 9/11 Commission, Phillip Zelikow, in 2002. By 1999, the program collected 3.5 terabytes of data confirming that 2 of 3 terrorist cells were operating inside the United States. However SOCOM lawyers ordered the data destroyed. Shaffer would have his security clearance suspended by the Department of Defense, suggesting Shaffer disclosed secrets about the program to Zelikow. The 9/11 Commission never used Shaffer's testimony stating to Congressman Curt Weldon in 2004. "it was not part of the story we wanted to tell". In this video i talk in depth about the program.