"Congressman: Atta papers destroyed on orders" - pegging weirdness

[FormerRepublican]

"Pentagon denies having any documents on lead hijacker prior to 9/11

Updated: 3:53 a.m. ET Sept. 16, 2005
WASHINGTON - A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks, a congressman said Thursday.

The employee is prepared to testify next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee and was expected to identify the person who ordered him to destroy the large volume of documents, said Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.

Weldon declined to identify the employee, citing confidentiality matters. Weldon described the documents as “2.5 terabytes” — as much as one-fourth of all the printed materials in the Library of Congress, he added.

A Senate Judiciary Committee aide said the witnesses for Wednesday's hearing had not been finalized and could not confirm Weldon’s comments.

Pentagon: Nothing found
Army Maj. Paul Swiergosz, a Pentagon spokesman, said officials have been “fact-finding in earnest for quite some time.”

“We’ve interviewed 80 people involved with Able Danger, combed through hundreds of thousands of documents and millions of e-mails and have still found no documentation of Mohamed Atta,” Swiergosz said.

He added that certain data had to be destroyed in accordance with existing regulations regarding “intelligence data on U.S. persons.”"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9342936/

[driver8]

1. "2.5 terabytes"??!!

That is a hell of a lot of info.

Hmmm...I can't wait to see how this turns out.

[hedda_foil]

3. It's a lot of info ... probably LOTS of high res images.

[underpants]

4. internet porn

This is just a guess but if it is true you heard it here first.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. i hope these are the documents the Eagleberger pocketed and copied

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[paineinthearse]

6. CSPAN rebroadcasting Rep. Weldon's Thursday statement now nt

Refers to a March 2002 speech he gave to Heritage Foundation (on their website) regarding "stovepipe" chain of command and briefing General Sheldon on Able Danger.

Also mentions Richard Shifford & Admiral Shelton briefing on "Able Danger".

[paineinthearse]

7. Help find Weldon's speech

Searched http://www.heritage.org/about/searchresults.cfm, could not locate.

:shrug: