Able Danger: What the 9/11 Commission Never Told You

The Warning Before 9/11 and the Intelligence They BuriedFor more than two decades, one question has haunted the story of September 11: what if elements inside the United States government knew more than they admitted before the attacks occurred?In Able Danger: What the 9/11 Commission Never Told You, former Congressman Curt Weldon presents a deeply personal and explosive account of a classified U.S.Army intelligence program that identified Mohammed Atta and elements of the Al Qaeda network operating inside the United States more than a year before 9/11-and of the institutional decisions that prevented that information from reaching the FBI. Drawing on decades of firsthand involvement, Weldon reconstructs the rise and suppression of the Able Danger program through sworn affidavits, congressional letters, classified briefings, unpublished oral histories, and testimony from military officers, intelligence officials, and senior government figures.At the center of the book is a disturbing a