Able Danger (The Defense Intelligence Agency Program)

This video was recorded on February 1,2020. In 1999 General Peter Schoomaker and General Hugh Shelton devised a covert operation led by the Land Information Warfare Agency along with Defense Intelligence analysts to collect open source information about terrorist cells operating inside the United States and abroad, the operation was code named "Able Danger". Lt.Co. Anthony Shaffer, led by the U.S Army and the Defense Intelligence Agency collected 3.5 terabytes of information about two terrorist cells inside the United States which uncovered a large international operation that had gone largely ignored.

However soon after this was uncovered Shaffer and the Able Danger ran into interagency and legal interference, which restricted them being able to operate and ultimately pressured by United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) lawyers to destroy the database because the information they collected regarding members of the Hamburg Cell led by future 9/11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, were considered "U.S citizens" and covered under the U.S Persons Policy. But were they? And why did the Pentagon suspend Shaffer's security clearance soon after?