18 Quotes by Anthony Shaffer

wasn't about dates and locations. It was about associations and linkages. That's what the focus was.

We wanted all the information we could so we could figure out where they're at and what they're doing,

There was a feeling ... if we give this information to the FBI and something goes wrong, we're going to get blamed for whatever goes wrong,

there was a significant amount of information that was totally deleted or not provided to the 9/11 commissioners.

Not to say they were physically here, but the data led us to believe there was some activity related to the original World Trade Center bombing that these guys were somehow affiliated with,

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, ... 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.

In my view, there's no reason to destroy the (

I just walked away shocked that they would kind of change their mind, but I figured someone with equal or better knowledge ... probably came and talked to them, so they must've taken care of it,

The lawyers' view was to leave them alone, they had the same basic rights as a U.S. citizen, a U.S. person and therefore the data was kind of left alone,