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Able Danger: Members, Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers & Overview

Able Danger was a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early October 1999 by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton, to develop an information operations campaign plan against…

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Able Danger topic overview

The analysis highlights Members, Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Able Danger.

Related topics
86
Source areas
9
Connected nodes
95
Extracted relationships
258
Concept neighborhoods
25
Bridge connections
95

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers · 29 topics
Overview · 27 topics
Comments by members of the Able Danger team · 8 topics
Skepticism · 7 topics
Movie · 6 topics
The wall · 5 topics
Weldon changes his story · 2 topics
Book · 1 topics
Congressional hearings · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

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Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers

Weldon changes his story

Comments by members of the Able Danger team

The wall

Skepticism

Congressional hearings

Movie

Book

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Able Danger connects Entity context

The extracted context around Able Danger shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Able Danger → After Weldon's, Al Qaeda, Anthony Shaffer, Blind Sheik, Brooklyn' Al-Qaeda, Col, Commission, December, Defense Intelligence Agency, DoD OIG, FBI, However, January, Lt, Mohamed Atta, Mohammed Atta, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Philpott, Senate Intelligence Committee, September Another extracted example is Able Danger → Alvin, Atta, August, Commission, Curt Weldon's, FBI, Felzenberg, Following, Government Security News, GSN, Had, Hamilton, In, John, Lee, Lehman, Mohamed Atta, Roemer, The Sept, Timothy. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Able Danger

Top relations

related to Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer · 23
Able Danger → After Weldon's, Al Qaeda, Anthony Shaffer, Blind Sheik, Brooklyn' Al-Qaeda, Col, Commission, December, Defense Intelligence Agency, DoD OIG, FBI, However, January, Lt, Mohamed Atta, Mohammed Atta, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Philpott, Senate Intelligence Committee, September
related to Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission · 22
Able Danger → Alvin, Atta, August, Commission, Curt Weldon's, FBI, Felzenberg, Following, Government Security News, GSN, Had, Hamilton, In, John, Lee, Lehman, Mohamed Atta, Roemer, The Sept, Timothy
related to Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers · 22
Able Danger → Eight, February, He, House, House Armed Services, House Homeland Security, June, Keith Phucas, Mohamed Atta, Norristown, October, Pennsylvania, Phucas, Rep, Representative Curt Weldon, The, The Pentagon, The Times Herald, USS Cole, Wednesday
related to Congressional hearings · 20
Able Danger → Arlen Specter, Col, Defense, Defense Department, Department, FBI, However, Lt, Mark Zaid, Posse Comitatus Act, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, Senator Specter, September, Shaffer, Speaking, The Posse Comitatus Act, They, Those, United States, US
related to Book · 17
Able Danger → Able Danger's, Agency, Anthony, Col, Commission, DIA, DOD, Lt, Operation Dark Heart, Philip Zelikow, September, Shaffer, Shaffer's, Specifically, The, The DOD's Defense Intelligence, Tony Shaffer
related to Navy Captain Scott Phillpott · 17
Able Danger → Army, Atta, Cambone, Capt, Commission, Defense, Department, Dr, Fox News, Intelligence, January/February, My, Phillpott, Scott Phillpott, Shaffer's, Special Operations Command, Undersecretary
related to Able Danger data destroyed · 16
Able Danger → Atta's, Countdown, Deputy National Security Advisor, Hazmi, He, In, Jim Steinberg, Khalid, Marwan, Mihdhar, Mohamed Atta, Nawaf, Shehhi, Stephen Hadley, Terror, Weldon
related to The wall · 16
Able Danger → Andrew McCarthy, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Church Committee, CIA, Clinton, Commission, Defense, Department, During, FBI, Former, Gorton, Jamie Gorelick, R-WA, Slade Gorton, This
related to Inspector General's report · 15
Able Danger → Able Danger-related, Army, Commission, Congress, Defense, Deputy Inspector General, DIA, DIA IG, Investigations, LTC Shaffer's, Members, Office, On September, Shaffer, The Department
related to Subsequent investigations · 15
Able Danger → Capabilities, Congressmen Curt Weldon, Defense Department, Mohamed Atta, On February, On September, Pentagon, September, Strategic Forces, Subcommittee, Terrorism, The, The Washington Post, Unconventional Threats, Weldon

Important terminology

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Important terminology

able danger atta 11 information shaffer september commission mohamed defense intelligence identified two committee weldon also lt senate attacks report

Able Danger relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 258 structured relationships around Able Danger. Examples in this analysis include Able Danger → related to Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission → Curt Weldon's and Able Danger → related to Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission → August. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionCurt Weldon's0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionAugust0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionGovernment Security News0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionIn0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionFBI0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionWeldon0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionCommission0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionTwo0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionTimothy0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionRoemer0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionJohn0.60section
Able Dangerrelated to Able Danger and the 9/11 CommissionLehman0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Able Danger bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Danger, Atta and Identified. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Able Danger
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    • Atta
    • Identified
    • Commission
    • Shaffer
    • Information
    • Defense
    • September
    • Mohamed
    • Department
    • Intelligence
    • Weldon
  • able danger
    • Danger
    • Atta
    • Identified
    • Commission
    • Shaffer
    • Defense
    • Information
    • September
    • Department
    • Mohamed
    • Intelligence
    • Hijackers
  • defense intelligence agency
    • Department
    • Intelligence
    • Also
    • Danger
    • Information
    • Committee
    • Senate
    • Inspector
    • Investigation
    • Report
    • Prior
    • September
  • anthony shaffer
    • Members
    • September
    • Commission
    • Ig
    • Claimed
    • Hijackers
    • Attacks
    • Dod
    • Inspector
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    • Report
    • Information
  • september 11 attacks
    • Senate
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    • Identified
    • Commission
    • Investigation
    • Shaffer
    • Department
    • Chart
    • Mohamed
    • Atta
    • Prior
    • Hijackers
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    • Atta
    • Mohamed
    • Prior
    • Danger
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    • Commission
    • September
    • Attacks
    • Two
    • Information
    • Chart
    • Time
  • 9/11 commission
    • Members
    • Danger
    • Report
    • Identified
    • Information
    • Shaffer
    • Prior
    • Hijackers
    • Defense
    • Department
    • Intelligence
    • September
  • curt weldon
    • Chart
    • Able
    • Danger
    • Identified
    • Hijackers
    • Data
    • Also
    • Claimed
    • Commission
    • Fbi
    • Investigation
    • Members

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Able Danger, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Able Danger with Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Able Danger — Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers · splits 66 ⟂ 30
Able Danger — Overview · splits 68 ⟂ 28
Able Danger — Comments by members of the Able Danger team · splits 87 ⟂ 9
Able Danger — Skepticism · splits 88 ⟂ 8
Able Danger — Movie · splits 89 ⟂ 7
Able Danger — The wall · splits 90 ⟂ 6
Able Danger — Weldon changes his story · splits 93 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Able Danger

Nodes96
Edges95
Triples258
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020833
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Able Danger to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Members, Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Able Danger · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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