Lt. Col. Shaffer: Able Danger Docs Disappeared

NewsMax ^ | 8/21/05 | NewsMax

[wagglebee]

Documents detailing the work of a top secret military intelligence unit that identified lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta before the 9/11 attacks have disappeared, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency's liaison for the group, code named Able Danger.

"There's some troubling things that have happened both to me and the way the [Able Danger] information [was handled]," Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer told C-Span's "Sunday Morning Journal." "Shortly after I talked to the 9/11 Commission, there was some issues going on about the documentation. Right now as it stands this minute, to my knowledge, the documentation I had . . . we don't know where it is."

"It's not where I left it back in March of 2003," Shaffer said, which was "in a Department intelligence facility in the Northern Virginia area."

Shaffer told C-Span he had "one full set of Able Danger documents in my holdings from the DIA."

The Able Danger whistleblower had said previously that a member of the team had delivered two briefcases full of documents to the 9/11 Commission - but Commission spokesman have said they have found nothing that mentioned Atta by name.

[Jim Robinson]

Look in Hillary's shredder. Ooops. Too late.

[processing please hold]

I agree.

[konaice]

if the documents where typed on any word processor, that implies files that should be stored on one or more computers, perhaps in one or more directories on a system. It could even mean a group that worked on this project all have copies of the originals on other systems etc..

Now hold on there bucko....

Remember the project was shut down. That means everything is rounded up and put into boxes and shipped to the archives.

If you work for DOD, you DO NOT KEEP COPIES of critical stuff on "other systems" unless specifically told to do so. Its a court marshal offense.

Further big operations like the DOD do not keep obsolete computers very long, certainly not as long as a private citizen. When your unit is closed down you generally erase your drive, then the assets disposal teams come in and they yank the hard drive, totally destroy it, and sell the rest of the computer for surplus.

So if there are copies, (and there probably are) they are authorized copies in archival form left with the proper people.

Now if Klintoon had a way to reach those people they could easily place a few boxes in the wrong place in the warehouse, and that step alone will make them very hard to find.

[beyond the sea]

Looks a little like Edward G. Robinson.

;-)

[Alia]

bookmark.

[tang-soo]

Dox in Sox.

[Fudd Fan]

I think you're right, that's what I recall Tony saying too.

[F16Fighter]

Somebody got to Shaffer already?

Hmm...hadn't he just met with Arlen Specter and his staff to provide them "information"?

But let's face it -- if EVER a fix was going to be in, it's now. IMO, both sides of the aisle are neck-deep.

[beyond the sea]

Didn't Lt. Col. Shaffer say during that interview that the 2 briefcases full of documents that were given to the commission only represented 1/20th of the total?

Yes

[beyond the sea]

What the hell kind of people work at these facilities?

Compromised functionaries?

[infidel29]

...This story will go nowhere unless there's hard docs or numerous 1st person sources...

Yep, and I'll bet a lot of involved parties "have lunch at Fort Marcy park."

[beyond the sea]

But let's face it -- if EVER a fix was going to be in, it's now. IMO, both sides of the aisle are neck-deep.

Yep...... that's why Clinton was never called on the veracity of OKC (Jayna Davis had some grat material), Flight 800, Mena Airport, etc.

Bush Sr. and nearly everyone in the government is compromised and in on the same scam.

[wagglebee]

If two briefcases contained 1/20th of the documents, how the hell does something that would require 40 briefcases just vanish?!

[beyond the sea]

One of the few times the government does a thorough job. Poof!

[Marine_Uncle]

" I was wondering the same thing. I assume that if he had no idea where to locate a full set of documents, he would have said so."

Exactly. The wording in this article is hard to follow. It just does not seem to reflect the facts, as we would assume
where meant to be delinated in this article.

[satan]

If he kept one full set, and he had lost his security clearance as was reported, then this is series.

[texasbluebell]

Protecting each other has become a bigger priority than protecting you and I.

Back when I used to watch Bill O'Reilly, he used to say "The powerful protect each other. I'm looking out for you."

Not sure he still says that, but I'm sure it's still true -- at least the part about the powerful protecting each other.

[F16Fighter]

"That's why Clinton was never called on the veracity of OKC (Jayna Davis had some grat material), Flight 800, Mena Airport, etc.

Bush Sr. and nearly everyone in the government is compromised and in on the same scam."

And never has it ever been so d@mn obvious.

[wagglebee]

Here is a link to the C-span interview, I can't get the link to work (there is something wrong with Real Player on this computer).
http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=shaffer&image1.x=0&image1.y=0&image1=Submit

[beyond the sea]

Yep..........