Anthony Shaffer Quotations

I was at the point of near insubordination over the fact that this was something important, that this was something that should have been pursued,

I was at the point of near insubordination, ... over the fact that this was something important, that this was something that should have been pursued.

I did see the charts and I did handle the charts, but my understanding of them was like a layman, ... We had identified them as terrorists. . . . But even now I do not remember all the names.

I don't believe they (the commission) ever got all the documents,

I don't believe they ever got all the documents, but then again I don't think that they pressed properly to get all of the documents,

If that's not frightening, I don't know what is, ... That's chilling.

J.D. Smith took eight data points that were common to the original World Trade Center bombers in 1993, ... From those eight data points, he matched the profile.

we had lots of initiatives to find out where Al Qaeda was.

We discovered two of the three cells which conducted 9/11. If that's not significant, I don't know what is,

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,