Posted on 08/21/2005 2:52:23 PM PDT by 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.
huh?
What do you mean?
Yep.
all of the paper trail for this is gone? how is that possible, in the age of computers, where are the backups and the file copies?
indeed. this story is going to blow back on us if the word is now "oops, all the supporting documentation is gone".
either it never existed, or it was carefully scrubbed. which is it?
In so many ways a lot of this doesn't make any difference. No matter how bad the clinton muff ups were, it matters not to the lemming koolaid drinking would be kamikaze clintonista. It was never about the truth with any of them. It is all about image and manufacturing false realities for clinton. And if the truth emerges that smashes the phony clinton facade?.. Simple, obfuscate, attack, deny, coverup and smear.
This will all end the way the chicom contribution scandal ended. If it goes to the Senate there will a new John Glenn stand in to deflect all attacks. And, of yeah, in the meantime we get called right wingnuts who are delusional. Same old, same old.
In the same location as the backup tapes for White House email during Starr's investigation?
To an extent, there is an undercurrent of corruption in Washington that applies to both Dems and Pubs, IMO.
Could it be?
Who cares, Can we all get back to Cindy Sheehan and Natalie Holloway now. please
...and the dog ate my homework! HONEST!!
Plus, two sets that the 9/11 commission can't find. I can't imagine that there aren't other copies.
That's just the thing. It isn't possible. Whenever something is removed, trace indications are consistently left that it once existed and is now gone. This is true of classified documents, computer data, the works.
Something stinks here. I'm getting the very real feeling that we were set up.
Do we even want the documents back if they've been in Berger's pants?
I suspect, at least for Monday, that it will also be Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey...:-)
yes, but this is the defense department.
the other thing I would note. the output this team generated are the result of data mining operations. somewhere, someplace, there is (was) a database containing a list of all of this "total information awareness" data sets, plus some data mining software, that generated this "list of top terrorists" based on the data. this is all very sound science mind you.
where are servers holding this data, and the data mining routines that generated the lists?
It smells like Sandy Burglar was there
Too many people's reputations and careers would be destoyed if this matter were fully investigated.
It won't be.
They are both in a ditch.
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