The Gorelick Wall & Sandy Berger, Update XXVII

The Able Danger story has been taking some interesting turns lately and AJStrata has been right on top of it all.

News out recently about the mysterious Eileen Preisser:

Rep. Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania Republican, correctly asserts the terrorist attack on America on September 11, 2001, could have been averted.

The assertion was based on his efforts as early as 1999 to create a national collaborative or fusion center.
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Mr. Weldon first sought help from Eileen Preisser, who ran the Information Dominance Center at the U.S. Army?s Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA) at Fort Belvoir, Va. He then asked this writer to work with Ms. Preisser to see how the Army initiative could be expanded into a national effort.

Who is this writer you may ask? AJ has the scoop:

Well ?this writer? is ?F. Michael Maloof ? a former senior analyst in the Office of the Defense Secretary? and he is no low level person. We also now have an indication of where the initial resistance may to Able Danger may have come from. I say ?may? because I still think the true source of the major resistance was the DoD Counsel?s office.

A theory being completely supported by this authoratative person:

Following the initial DoD turndown, Ellen Preisser and this writer then data-mined unclassified information to report to Mr. Weldon on possible Chinese front companies in the United States seeking technology for the People?s Liberation Army.

It showed how Chinese front companies in the United States listed as U.S. corporations were acquiring U.S. weapons technology from U.S. defense contractors, and improving China?s military capability. Such access to U.S. technology then would allow the Chinese over time to duplicate U.S. military systems down to the widget.

Indeed, a June 27, 2005 article in The Washington Times reported U.S. investigators were concerned with China and its middlemen increasingly and illegally obtaining ?sensitive or classified U.S. weapons technology? from U.S. companies.

Reaction to the study on Chinese front companies in the United States from the Army and the General Counsel?s office in the Office of the Defense Secretary was immediate. In November 1999, they ordered the study destroyed, but not before Mr. Weldon complained to then Army Chief of Staff Eric K. Shinseki.

And more – now we have a name of one of the lawyers who at least passed on the word about the pending purge. And yes, it was due to the China study as I predicted – as this notation from what appears to be the actual response (something the DoD cannot seem to locate) clearly shows:

?Preliminary review of subject methodology raised the possibility that LIWA ?data mining? would potentially access both foreign intelligence (FI) information and domestic information relating to U.S. citizens (i.e. law enforcement, tax, customs, immigration, etc,? Capt. Lohr wrote.

?I recognize that an argument can be made that LIWA is not ?collecting? in the strict sense (i.e. they are accessing public areas of the Internet and non-FI federal government databases of already lawfully collected information),? Capt. Lohr added. ?This effort would, however, have the potential to pull together into a single database a wealth of privacy-protected U.S. citizen information in a more sweeping and exhaustive manner than was previously contemplated.?

In effect, the national collaborative center experiment based on the LIWA example was sidelined.

If the concept of the NOAH had been in effect on September 11, 2001, events may have been different. The cost for such a system would have been minimal compared to the heavy cost in human life and resources the nation suffered.

This writer worked with Eileen, the person who implemented the data mining technology, and is saying that if the data mining technology had been still in use prior to 9/11, the attack could have been averted.

AJ also finds this interesting bit of information about the writer:

F. Michael Maloof, until recently a veteran Pentagon security official in the office of Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, said his security clearances were revoked based on false charges by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) that he failed to report contacts with a foreign national he met while working for the Pentagon in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. He later married the woman, who is now a U.S. government translator.

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The suspension coincided with Mr. Maloof?s work on a special-intelligence analysis that showed previously undisclosed links between Sunni and Shia extremists, including al Qaeda?s ties to Saddam Hussein?s government.

Sound like someone we know? A certain LTC Shaffer. It appears the DoD is fond of using security clearences as a way of shutting people up.

We now the data mining projects was shut down due to the China connection, confirmed here:

Following the initial DoD turndown, Ellen Preisser and this writer then data-mined unclassified information to report to Mr. Weldon on possible Chinese front companies in the United States seeking technology for the People?s Liberation Army.

It showed how Chinese front companies in the United States listed as U.S. corporations were acquiring U.S. weapons technology from U.S. defense contractors, and improving China?s military capability. Such access to U.S. technology then would allow the Chinese over time to duplicate U.S. military systems down to the widget.

Indeed, a June 27, 2005 article in The Washington Times reported U.S. investigators were concerned with China and its middlemen increasingly and illegally obtaining ?sensitive or classified U.S. weapons technology? from U.S. companies.

Reaction to the study on Chinese front companies in the United States from the Army and the General Counsel?s office in the Office of the Defense Secretary was immediate. In November 1999, they ordered the study destroyed, but not before Mr. Weldon complained to then Army Chief of Staff Eric K. Shinseki.

Really nothing new here to report about the 9/11 terrorists being discovered long before 9/11, but interesting information nonetheless. Why was the DoD and the Clinton Administration so quick to shut down this technology once China information started seeing the light of day? I’m sure there will be more to come.

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