Operation Dark Heart
The book “Operation Dark Heart” has raised quite a stir and created many questions about military intelligence operations leading up to the 9/11 attack. The author, US Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, was a Defense Intelligence Agency officer working under a secret program called “Able Danger” created in the late 90’s, to monitor or (and) “infiltrate” Muslim terror cells.
Military officials initially approved publication of the book, but then decided that certain classified details should be “redacted.” They ordered the destruction of the first run of the book amounting to 10,000 copies, and paid the publisher for the loss. A revised edition was then approved.
Shaffer claims to have uncovered information identifying Mohammed Atta as a threat to U.S. security a year before the 9/11 attacks, but those claims never made it into the Inspector General’s report.
Shaffer, as well as other witnesses in the investigation, told Fox News that they were treated with hostility by the investigating committee, and that some of their testimony was either not accurately recorded or did not make it into the final report at all.
