Anthony Shaffer (intelligence officer)

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Anthony Shaffer is publicly known for his connections and revelations regarding the Army's LIWA (the Land Information Warfare Activity) and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) program Able Danger. He contends that the program uncovered 2 of the 3 Cells involved with 9/11 1 year before the attack, as well as identifying Mohamed Atta, believed by some to be one of the instrumental figures in the attack.

He says that when he and others involved in Able Danger decided they should share this information with the FBI, that they were blocked from doing so by lawyers in SOCOM over concerns over legality. These concerns may have included using publicly available information as intelligence sources upon the citizens of the U.S. Shaffer Interview on GSN

Shaffer's contentions are being followed up upon by Rep. Curt Weldon who believes that 9/11 could have been prevented if the information gained by Able Danger was properly dealt with.

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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer is a Bronze Star Medal recipient who is a CIA trained senior intelligence operations officer and reserve Army lieutenant colonel with more than 22 years of experience in the intelligence community; he has served his entire career at the forefront of this country’s secret intelligence battles in cutting edge, often dangerous, assignments and leadership positions.

As the director of DIA Task Force STRATUS IVY, he led this special mission unit in the conduct of some of the most daring and innovative Human Intelligence collection and information operations support projects ever undertaken by the Department of Defense, to include providing direct support to ABLE DANGER. Many of these highly classified operations are still ongoing and continue to provide critical information on many of this nation’s most challenging adversaries.

During his tenure as director of STRATUS IVY he personally briefed the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) George Tenet on three separate occasions regarding his unit's activities.

During his 30 month recall to active duty for the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal (BSM) for the first of his two deployments to Afghanistan and is credited with playing a major role in breaking the back of a Taliban Offensive in the autumn of 2003. While in Afghanistan he also participated in an air assault with the 75th Ranger Regiment during WINTER STRIKE 03 to bring critical information and supplies to his HUMINT team located in a forward combat area with the Rangers in the Hindu Kush Mountains.

In addition to his Afghanistan military deployment, he has been deployed as a military officer to Germany, Thailand and New Zealand.

He is a 1986 graduate of Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a dual major in Political Science and Environmental Studies and is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha – the National Political Science Honor Society.