[Texas Songwriter]

Who in the chain of command could order the documents destroyed?.....Cohen, Clinton,....a general in charge. The army doesn't take orders from the likes of Gorelick. Who else?

[Republic]

OH MY GOSH...........I had forgotten COHEN...our secretary of defense......................what a republican WHIMP....just what the clintons' wanted.....the dumb and dumber so that they could manipulate and easily control their designated cabinet officials

.....COHEN........ewwwwwwwwwwwww......

this is a man who appears especially unacquainted with character.

I am so GLAD he has disappeared into the nothingness he so richly deserves.

[YaYa123]

You asked, "Who in the chain of command could order the documents destroyed?"

I find this quote of Keith Olberman to LTC Shaffer helpful in answering your question :
" First, his (Shaffer's) story, parts which of you have heard previously from Pennsylvania Congressman Curt Weldon, and while in 2000 and 2001, he (Shaffer) tried three times to get information about al Qaeda suspects in America into the hands of the FBI, that the meetings kept getting canceled by military lawyers, fearful the Army would be seen as using its resources against civilians who were in this country legally, and that those suspects eventually ended up hijacking planes on 9/11"

Well, Texas Songwriter, the head "military lawyer", the General Counsel to the Pentagon since May 24, 2001, is William J. Haynes II, a Bush appointee. Either his office, or his Clinton appointed predecessor, is the one who must have canceled Shaeffer's meetings with the FBI. I don't see it as a big leap at all to imagine Haynes, or his predecessor, wanted all Able Danger information destroyed, to keep the Pentagon out of legal hot water.

(Jamie Gorelick resigned as Pentagon General Counsel in 1995. I don't know who Clinton appointed to replace her, but whoever it was, he would have stayed in close contact with her in her next appointment as Deputy Attorney General.)Can't you imagine him calling his predecessor for advice on how to handle this Able Danger hot potato?

I think it was either that person, or William Haynes, who could have ordered the destruction of Able Danger documents. And I think the officer responsible for Able Danger, Shaffer's commanding officer, would have seen to it.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Who in the chain of command could order the documents destroyed?.....Cohen, Clinton,....a general in charge. The army doesn't take orders from the likes of Gorelick. Who else?

Just about anyone! DOD regulations prohibited the retention or dissemination of information regarding US Persons. Once the decision was made (rightly or wrongly!!) that ATTA & Co (or any one else for that matter) were US Persons under Title 50 USC 1801, the information had to be destroyed!