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  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Six degrees of Able Danger'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Those on-again, off-again Senate Judiciary Committee hearings concerning a once-secret military intelligence unit called “Able Danger” are off, again ... and have yet to be rescheduled.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Six degrees of Able Danger 2005

  • Able is the more inviting of the two actors but she mostly spends her time reacting to whatever Nairy is mumbling.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Monsters Marshall Fine 2010

  • American Able is a brilliant slam-dunk against the ways genuinely "normal" bodies -- those which are what we see in our everyday public -- are rendered "other" by the media and particularly by fashion, which is an industry predicated on perpetuating our most deeply-held oppressions even as they might argue they are subverting it.

    "American Able" and The Beauty Way 2010

  • American Able is a brilliant slam-dunk against the ways genuinely "normal" bodies -- those which are what we see in our everyday public -- are rendered "other" by the media and particularly by fashion, which is an industry predicated on perpetuating our most deeply-held oppressions even as they might argue they are subverting it.

    Archive 2010-05-01 2010

  • Able is the more inviting of the two actors but she mostly spends her time reacting to whatever Nairy is mumbling.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Monsters Marshall Fine 2010

  • Staff Sgt. Brandon W. Farley, 30, of Haworth, Okla., died Sept. 18 at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained Sept. 17 when his mounted patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms and rocket-propelled grenades in Able Monti,

    KIA KIA/BNR 2008

  • It would not have covered the situation at issue in Able Danger, that is, information gathered by military intelligence.

    Think Progress » Video: Feingold Convinces Senators to Block Patriot Act Extension 2005

  • BLITZER: Did you know about this unit called Able Danger, these special operations forces that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Hugh Shelton, had created?

    CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2005 2005

  • Weldon says the Army's intelligence unit known as Able Danger, identified the ringleaders of the 9/11 attacks more than a year before September 11, but those warnings were ignored by the Pentagon.

    CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2005 2005

  • Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer says he alerted the FBI in 2000 about the information, at least he tried to alert the FBI about the information gathered by his classified unit called Able Danger.

    CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2005 2005

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