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Able Danger docs destroyed, claims employee
WND = NaCl. Deleted stuff that Rantburgers already know.An employee of the Defense Department says he was ordered to destroy documents identifying Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks on the U.S., Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., announced today. According to the congressman, the employee is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week and will name the person who ordered the documents destroyed. Weldon says the documents were extensive, making up 2.5 terabytes â which he says represents as much as one-fourth of all the printed material in the Library of Congress. I'm beginning to detect male bovine fecal material. That would be some 125,000 full-page 600 DPI bitmaps, or an astronomical number of pages of text. The Pennsylvania lawmaker has been revealing information coming from people involved in the Pentagon's "Able Danger" project, which, beginning in 1999, identified and targeted al-Qaida on a global basis using advanced technology and data analysis. Personnel involved in the project have said even though they ID'd Atta and three others two years before the 9-11 attacks, they were prevented from sharing the information with the FBI apparently due to the Clinton-era "wall of separation" between intelligence and law enforcement. The Associated Press reported that yesterday, 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." This despite the fact Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, who was part of Able Danger, says he personally told 9-11 commission staff both about the project's findings and the fact personnel were prevented from passing along the information to federal law enforcement officials. "What we talked about to the 9-11 commission was we found that these guys matched a pattern that matched the Brooklyn location" of an al-Qaida sleeper cell, Shaffer told Fox News last month. Posted by: Jackal 2005-09-16 |
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