Weldon Says Witness Will Tell of Destroying Data About Potential Terrorists

John Batchelor Show.com (from The Congressional Quarterly) ^ | Posted September 09, 2005 | By John M. Donnelly

[AmericanVictory]

Done. 50K.

Could this be why Dems want another commission to "get to the bottom of things?"

[Roccus]

If the RICO laws were properly and evenly applied, there wouldn't be a single career politician who wouldn't be residing in the Gray Bar Hotel!

[Past Your Eyes]

Oooo, I've moved all the way up to "Old newbie!!!" LOL!
tenjoobellymud.

[Calpernia]

ping to me for later.

[nuconvert]

thank you all for the info

[combat_boots]

Hilary Clinton has a copy.

[Calpernia]

I wonder if Sandy Burgler will be one of or the witnesses?

The deal was for him to cooperate in an investigation...

Just a thought.

[Roccus]

IMO, Cal, I don't think so. I think it will all "...just go away." Generations from now the truth may come out, but I doubt we'll see it.
Perhaps it is this thought process that cause some to call me a romantic cynic, also, a cynical romantic!

[Calpernia]

There is too much info out there for everything to go away.

I'm more optimistic.

[hoboken109]

Got that right man ..

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL! tenjoobellymud ? I keep asking myself if I really want to know the definition of that.

[Roccus]

Think...phonics! };^)

[krunkygirl]

BUMP and save

[Enterprise]

I'm going to take a stab at this. There may or may be sinister motives assigned to the ordering of the destruction of the information the team gathered.

Some military personnel might have assignments of an information gathering nature. Long before the Gorelick wall was established, instructions were given, and the military was very clear about this, that information gathered about U.S. citizens could not be disclosed. Now, there may have been a clause relating to criminal activity, but that is not the point here. It is possible that in the gathering of information, even though some of it was public source, many names of U.S. citizens might have been gathered, and they may have had no involvement whatever in criminal matters.

At some point, the military authorities or their legal advisors may have concluded that there was too much information gathered which was in violation of U.S. privacy laws, and in violation of established Pentagon directives on the gathering of information of U.S. citizens by a military unit. Thus, the information was ordered destroyed, possibly because it became a matter of domestic surveillance by military personnel. It was against the law then, and I believe it is still against the law.

Just a guess though, just a guess.

[bobsunshine]

Here's a short story that I found from 'A Fly On the Wall'. It's a satire on "what might have happened to the records". Pretty good read.


The Plan to Hide the Truth About 9-11 Begins

Even though it was the middle of the holiday season of 2003, the attendees all arrived at the scheduled meeting on time, if not a bit early.

Paul Begalia arrived first as planned and worked with the Secret Service to insure that the meeting room had no bugs or recording devices. Jamie Gorelick arrived next, nodded hello to Paul, went to the sideboard and rounded up a bottle of spring water and a donut as provided. She noticed a fly indulging in one of the donuts and shooed the beast off in disgust.

"Imagine flies this time of year," Gorelick said to Paul then assumed a seat at the conference table.

Sandy Berger, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton arrived together. Greetings were exchanged, coffee or water obtained, the fly again was shooed off a donut.

Ben Veniste came breathlessly into the room five minutes later, threw his briefcase into a chair, picked up a bottle of water from the sideboard and again shooed the pesky fly off of the donut.

"How in the hell are flies still around at Christmas?" Veniste asked distractedly.

Begalia cleared his throat once all attendees were settled.

"We've checked the room. There are no bugs. Everything is safe," Begalia explained. The fly landed on Hillary's donut.

"I want whoever prepared the refreshments fired," Hillary said acidly. "There's no excuse for this fly in the room at this time of year."

Begalia cleared his throat again after scribbling a note to himself to fire the refreshment staff as Hillary commanded.

"Okay, we're here to finalize The Plan," Begalia said, using his index and middle finger of each hand to create imaginary quotes in the air as he said the words "The Plan" solemnly.

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Read the rest of the short story at:

http://patfish.blogspot.com/2005/08/birds-time-for-annual-hummingbird-wars.html

[NetValue]

Able Danger is like a hurricane sitting just outside the reach of the Washington elite. It threatens to discredit the 9/11 Commission and establish once again who knew or should have known.

[cpdiii]

I think what we are all missing is the data may have been destroyed that they collected but a great deal if not most of the data they mined can be mined again. It is out there in many data bases. I wonder if they have started the operation over? I would hope so. The data exists in bank records and computers. It is there. It can be recreated again. If I were Clinton and his old gang at the justice department and the DNC I would be afraid of this operation.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Was last week. $50,000 fine and probation. The Red Chinese Lippo Bank probably covered the tab.

[popdonnelly]

One thing professional Washington bureaucrats like Gorelick are really good at is CYA.

[popdonnelly]

"Could this be why Dems want another commission to "get to the bottom of things?"

The Dems having been going lower and lower for years, but they haven't seemed to hit bottom yet.