Source SRC-SENATE-ABLEDANGER-2005

Able Danger and Intelligence Information Sharing — Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate

U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary · 2005

AI-verified citationSRC-SENATE-ABLEDANGER-2005

identifier / locator

S. Hrg. 109-311, Serial No. J-109-39; September 21, 2005

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verification note

GPO HTML transcript fetched live 2026-08-26; the chairman's statement about barred witnesses quoted verbatim from his opening remarks.

reliability notes

A hearing record: authoritative for what was said on the record, not for whether what was said is true.
The chairman's characterization of possible obstruction is his own assertion at the time, recorded as such.

Evidence drawn from this source

Supports· moderateSEP-E029

what the source states: "I was surprised to find that the Department of Defense has ordered five key witnesses not to testify, some of them military, some civilian, all working for the Department of Defense. That looks to me as if it may be obstruction of the Committee's activities, which is something we will have to determine."
what we infer: The department prevented sworn public testimony on the question a year before its own inspector general resolved it internally. That is a real transparency failure and it is not evidence about what the program found — an important distinction this case keeps, because the barring is often offered as though it were.
limitations: The chairman's characterization of possible obstruction is his assertion at the time, not a finding.