The Bush administration terminated Able Danger in Feb 2001!

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Right after taking office.

http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15032471&BRD=1672&PAG=461

"A small group of Defense Intelligence Agency employees ran the Able Danger operation from fall 1999 to February 2001 - just seven months before the terrorist attacks - when the operation was unceremoniously axed, according to a former defense intelligence official familiar with the program."

Is this incompetence or maliciousness on the part of the Bush administration? If they were planning a terrorist attack, would they do something so obvious?

Were the main Bush administration officials really just totally clueless about Al Qaeda-- and about the capacity of elements of the government to sponsor synthetic terrorism (and this latter point is undeniable)?

Or did someone lower down the chain terminate the program as a way to set-up the incompetence defense that administration critics seem to accept far too easily?