The Bush Administration Terminated the "Able Danger" Program in February 2001

Yep, shut it down right after taking office. Amazing.

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?

The key point is who exactly terminated the program in Feb. 2001?