A former member of the military intelligence team told me 
    in an interview that it had enough data to raise suspicions.
    "But we were blocked from passing it to the FBI." 

    The connect-the-dots tracking by the team was so good 
    that it even knew Atta conducted meetings with the three 
    future hijackers. One of those meetings took place at the 
    Wayne Inn. That's how close all this was - to us and to 
    being solved, if only the information had been passed up 
    the line to FBI agents or even to local cops. ...

    The Able Danger sleuth, whose interview with me was 
    arranged by the staff of Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., asked 
    that his name not be revealed so he could maintain his 
    top-secret counter-terror role. He emerged from the 
    shadows of spying and intelligence analysis last week 
    because he wanted to set the record straight.

    One of his targets is the 9/11 commission. The 
    commission's staff, he says, ignored him when he 
    approached them on two occasions to spell out Able 
    Danger's work.

    Another target are Pentagon lawyers. The sleuth says he 
    and other Able Danger team members became so concerned  
    during the summer of 2000 that they asked their superiors 
    in the Pentagon's special operations command for 
    permission to approach the FBI. Their superiors 
    approached Pentagon legal experts. Those experts turned 
    down the request.