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The vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Commi ttees will hold the press conference at 12:30 pm Eastern to discuss th e latest findings of his own investigation. He claims Able Danger provided to Defense officials information about ter rorist activity in the Port of Aden prior to the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in October 2000. He will also reveal the discovery of another Able Danger member who confirms the Pentagon is not accounting for data. He also says the Defense Intelligence Agency is trying to smear Able Da nger member Lt. Anthony Shaffer who broke the silence about the Pen tagons efforts to track al-Qaida worldwide prior to Sept. "Able Danger" is described as a secret data-mining operation that alleged ly named Mohammad Atta as an al-Qaida operative a year before Sept. It was a small, highly classified operation reportedly created at the behest of then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Hugh Shelt on in 1999 to develop a campaign against international terrorism and, in particular, al-Qaida. According to reports, the Able Danger team had identified Atta, the lead attacker, and three others as probable members of an al-Qaida cell opera ting in the US by mid-2000. That assertion, however, contradicts earli er government denials US agencies had any prior knowledge of Atta or a ny others eventually associated with the attacks. The disclosure of the operation and its alleged findings was first made b y Weldon in a special orders speech on the House floor, and in his new b ook, "Countdown to Terror." Weldon also has said the information on the prior identification of Atta was provided to the official "9-11 Commission" investigating the attacks , but commission members Timothy J Roemer and John F Lehman have said they never received it. He also says when the hijacker team leader was f irst identified, Pentagon lawyers prevented the passage of the informati on to the FBI.
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