If you heard the discussion yesterday, you found out the governments DOD requirements to keep documents on US citizens for only 90-days to find out if they are revelant. After 90-days they are suppose to be destroyed.
This however was all under the Clinton administration. Having listened to those involved yesterday, this has nothing to do with Rumsfeld.
Atta and the other three 9/11 terrorists who showed up on the Able Danger chart were NOT U.S. citizens. So information about them need not have, and should not have, been destroyed.
I don't know the immigration status of the other fifty-odd persons who were fingered by Able Danger, but that is yet another mystery we need to clear up.
Have you read the second paragraph of the article? It places quite a bit of responsibility on the Pentagon, if not directly on Rumsfeld:
A lawyer for two Pentagon whistleblowers also told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that the Defense Intelligence Agency last year destroyed files on the Army's computer data-mining program known as Able Danger to avoid disclosing the information.
Am I mistaken, or was Atta actually an American citizen? I thought all this time that he was an alien on a visa.
90 days, my ass.
Does anyone here have any idea how long it takes to collect 2.5 to 3 terabytes of highly organized data in a formal data warehousing environment?
It took them years to build that data warehouse.
And that cost millions of dollars.
Someone ordered the plug pulled and they had a really good reason.
"If you heard the discussion yesterday, you found out the governments DOD requirements to keep documents on US citizens for only 90-days to find out if they are revelant. After 90-days they are suppose to be destroyed."
Chairman Specter questioned the DoD lawyer, after the lawyer explained the 90 day rule, for "US Persons."
Specter asked: "was Atta a US Person?"
"No"