Able Danger

Able Danger was a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). 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, "specifically AlQaeda."[citation needed] In December 2006, a sixteen-month investigation by the US Senate Intelligence Committee concluded "Able Danger did not identify Mohamed Atta or any other 9/11 (World Trade Center) hijacker at any time prior to September 11, 2001," and dismissed other assertions that have fueled 9/11 Conspiracy Theory-s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Danger