Monday, August 29, 2005

War and (puzzle) Piece on Able danger Laura Rozen's web log War and Piece has continued to follow former intell project Able Danger. She links up a New York Post report on Able Danger indicating the project was producing a great deal of vauge information that was leading the team running it to produce substantial and very off the wall reports. One operation was to examine Chinese (PRC) strategic and business connections Since the design was to highlight relationships it threw up a lot of names, a lot of American names - Like Dr. Condoleezza Rice's. Probably through her association with that known hotbed of international commu-anarcho-islamo-terrorism, Stanford University. This seems to be approximately when the program was "restructured." Two other posts: Terry McDermott...weighs in on Able Danger and More on Able Danger contrator J.D. Smith: deal with with what has been pieced together on the strength of post 9/11 examinations. What is known and what could have been known about Atta versus the Able Danger data and the sort of analysis it was subjected to. Analysis is the critical step whether you're talking about aerial photo data or data mining through the randam data of the information society. You have to have a plan, a method of analysis, critera for judgement, a way of forming hypothesis and then testing them. Otherwise you are just playing games; The seven degrees of Mohammand Atta. She notes in the last post she has on this Able Danger Update we are getting some clarification (admittance of this) in the last analysis from some of the people involved. Who point out that all we may being seeing are certain statistical shared characteristics irrespective of any geographical relation or people actually knowing each other. 11:55:00 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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