The 2.5 terabytes seems kinda over the top?

[SeiowMao]

Sure hope the story grows feet - the hearing should help if more than one

[Deep13]

1. huh?

:shrug:

[underpants]

7. Info destroyed on Atta apparently at the request of Rep.Weldon

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2094510

[back2basics909]

2. Thats a whole lot of data...

.. but remember the excuse for scrapping Able Danger was privacy. They were data trawling through all data help on anybody in America, looking for links. So that could be quiet a bit of data.

If it's all documents it sounds far too much.

[wtmusic]

6. agree

that figure seems high by 2-3 orders of magnitude

[Igel]

3. No. I don't know if it's an unreasonable amount,

but it doesn't seem to be.

Lots of data out there. Much was probably duplicate data from different sources.

[zbdent]

5. One report said that it amounts to

about a quarter of the entire Library of Congress . . .

Here's the text from the blurb in the Akron Beacon Journal (too small to actually wonder about copyright):

"Did Pentagon aide shred Atta reports?

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 name the person who ordered him to destroy the large volume of documents, said Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa. Weldon declined to name the employee, citing confidentiality matters. Weldon described the documents as :wow: ``2.5 terabytes'' of computer data -- as much as one-fourth of all the printed material in the Library of Congress, he added:wow:."

[Salviati]

8. I guess it depends on what kind of data...

I mean there's probably a lot of redundant documents for starters, but text doesn't take up a lot of space, so alot of it may be pictures, audio, and video, that's the only way I can see having terrabytes of information on someone.

[Igel]

11. I rather imagine that when they shut the project

down and dumped the records, all the immigration, credit card, bank, visa, phone, credit, education, and other records were disposed of. This probably included news reports and whatever newsgroups/usergroup info was out there at the time. And the overseas data they had pulled in, mosque records and the like.

Plus some pictorial archives.

That's a lot of data. Much of it useless.

[whatever4]

4. hmmm

terabytes makes me think of models. Like weather prediction models, models of scenerios.

Must have been pretty damned interesting stuff. And was a LOT of data to throw out, many man hours and much money collecting it.

[Mairead]

9. It's not really that much. I've 0.25TB of hard-disk storage, nearly full

on my own workstation. Not to mention lots of DVD and CD backup.

Video, stills, and voice suck up MBs like mad. So depending on what it was....

And it could be that he's just confused and misquoting something he doesn't understand.

[Roland99]

10. Videos, audio files, documents, images, etc.

It can add up quickly.

[Zynx]

12. Not if its lot of video and audio. Those files are huge.

[AntiCoup2K4]

13. The REAL story they're hiding with Atta has nothing to do with 9-11

It has to do with who Atta REALLY worked for, and some of his previous assignments, including "agricultural imports" for the Bush Criminal Empire/CIA.

http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=639