Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) questions Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and defense contractors James Smith and Erik Kleinsmith during a joint House subcommittee hearing on the Defense Department’s Able Danger program. In 1999, Able Danger was started with the purpose of tracking and stopping international terrorism.

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Weldon asks the men, who were all personally involved in the Able Danger program, if they thought the data obtained by Able Danger’s data mining operation prior to September 11, 2001 could have empowered the F.B.I. to stop the terrorist attacks. ( :40)

 
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