Atta documents destroyed.

[Nordmadr]

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.



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

These aren't the droids you're looking for...move along.

Olaf

[Nordmadr]

1. Nobody thinks this is news? N/T

[Julius Civitatus]

2. I keep throwing away my tin-foil hat...

...but these f*ckers keep pulling me back in!!!!

:tinfoilhat:

[Nordmadr]

3. I laughed at that, and then realized it really shouldn't be funny. NT

[Julius Civitatus]

5. I know! n/t

[Holly_Hobby]

4. This is important

It should be on the front page.

[Julius Civitatus]

6. Yes -- please nominate this thread

Click on the "recommend" button above.

[Holly_Hobby]

11. Done. n/t

[Nordmadr]

7. Keeping it kicked. Want people to see this. N/T

[Julius Civitatus]

8. Indeed

This is OUTRAGEOUS!

[RamboLiberal]

9. I don't believe Curt Weldon - he's as nutty as Zell Miller

I've heard various experts debunk this including Roger Cressey on Countdown.

DU'ers maybe this is true, or maybe this is a bunch of hooey. Just be very wary of info coming from Weldon.

From the article:

On Wednesday, former members of the Sept. 11 commission dismissed the “Able Danger” assertions. One commissioner, ex-Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., said, “Bluntly, it just didn’t happen and that’s the conclusion of all 10 of us.”

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

[Holly_Hobby]

12. I don't believe the Warren Commission, either n/t

[jillan]

10. check out the greatest from yesterday.

That's why nobody's responding.

[wolfgirl]

13. Something is wrong

w/this guy's story. He is essentially saying someone, during Clinton's presidency, ordered the destruction of a HUGE amount of data....and no one noticed. I don't buy it.

However, it this event occurred under the Bush reign, well, I might just think it was true.

[burythehatchet]

15. Clinton and Clark were not told about about it.

SLAD has some great info on this thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4791303

[formernaderite]

20. Data mining produces a HUGE amount of data....

I can imagine they wouldn't want people knowing they were doing this sort of thing. Some years ago I read about a Clinton era data mining operation on some tinfoil site....project???? something or other. At the time it seemed a bit too sinister...but who knows. Clinton and Reno were really just repubs-lite in terms of law enforcement.

[boston bean]

22. no the docs came into existence in lat 1999. They were not

destroyed until late september 2001.

[Stephanie]

14. 2.5 terabytes???

How is that even possible? doesn't ring true.

[burythehatchet]

16. able danger is essentially a monsterous database

[drummo]

17. Weldon is crazy in my view.

And whatever Able Danger knew about Atta it's irrelevant. Because two other hijackers whom them supposedly also identified, Nawaq Al-Hazmi and Khalid al -Midhar, were already known by some in the CIA and the FBI before 9/11.

Bush's biggest blunder was not to ask questions about potentional al Qaeda operatives inside the US in Aug 2001. He did not ask a fucking question from the FBI Counterterrorism Division. Nada.
Clinton would have. Gore would have. Bush didn't.
And once you have Midhar and Hazmi you have all the other hijackers because of common address and phone information -- for which you don't need any kind of tricky Able Danger or data minding operation just a damn phone book in San Diego. Wow. Rocket science.

[pushycat]

18. In other words, this was another 'exercise' in data mining? eom

[Festivito]

19. ORDERED destroyed is not the same as ACTUALLY destroyed.

And, when was the order given ... to destroy the ?two-year-old information? I get the impression that there are careful ommissions in every article about this issue.

And, when, was it done, if it was done?

And, I wonder what the Pentagon official about to be fingered is thinking and most especially doing for these couple of days.

[boston bean]

21. I posted about this yesterday and it did not get much attention.

I heard on one of the cable channels, that the docs were destroyed late summer of 2001.

hmmmm....I wonder who told him to destroy them.

Just so you know summer ended on September 21st, in 2001.

[pushycat]

23. Convenient timing I say eom