On the Fox News Channel, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer explicitly said that the Pentagon did not give the 9/11 Commission all the documents relating to Able Danger, though he doesn’t have first-hand knowledge of that. According to the Associated Press story, “‘I’m told confidently by the person who did move the material over that the 9/11 commission received two briefcase-size containers of documents,’ Shaffer said in the interview, part of which was aired by Fox News Tuesday night. ‘I can tell you for a fact that would not be … one-20th of the information that Able Danger consisted of during the time we spent.’”

Again, that means either Shaffer got this wrong, or the paperwork was misplaced, or somebody at the Pentagon is covering up due to its “wall”-induced behavior in 2000 and 2001. Thus, according to Shaffer, everybody here was either incompetent or up to no good:

He told the 9/11 Commission about this in 2003 and its staff is lying, but its staff still looked into it in January at the Pentagon and the Pentagon didn’t give the staff all the documents that would have proved Atta’s name had been surfaced as an Al Qaeda agent in 2000. So the 9/11 staff is corrupt, but was also kept in the dark.

I dunno…it’s a lot of interlocking corruption-incompetence-coverup by different government agencies and bodies with wildly different agendas and purposes…could be…could also not be…