Is the Able Danger Scandal About To Be Blown Wide Open?

It sure looks that way. Check this out:

An officer who has claimed that a classified military unit identified four Sept. 11 hijackers before the 2001 attacks is facing Pentagon accusations of breaking numerous rules, charges his lawyer suggests are aimed at undermining his credibility.

The alleged infractions by Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, 42, include obtaining a service medal under false pretenses, improperly flashing military identification while drunk and stealing pens, according to military paperwork shown by his attorney to The Associated Press.

Shaffer was one of the first to publicly link Sept. 11 leader Mohamed Atta to the unit code-named Able Danger. Shaffer was one of five witnesses the Pentagon ordered not to appear Sept. 21 before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the unit's findings.

The military revoked Shaffer's top security clearance . . . a day before he was supposed to testify to a congressional committee.

It is pretty clear that a big portion of the 9-11 story has not yet been told, and powerful people are working their asses off to keep that portion of the story secret (the order that Shaffer not testify reportedly came from Rumsfeld himself).