THE SHAMEFUL COVER-UP OF 9/11 TRUTH

Here is a reminder of a story that surfaced two months ago. No doubt this would have been vigorously pursued by the likes of the New York Times had the event taken place while Bush was in office. But Clinton was president at the time, so this matter has been media buried.

Here is the story for those who missed it in September:

ATTA PAPERS DESTROYED ON ORDERS

Sep 15 2005

By Donna De La Cruz
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that
identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks,
a congressman said Sept. 15.

The employee is prepared to testify next week before the Senate Judiciary
Committee and was expected to identify the person who ordered him to
destroy the large volume of documents, said Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.

Weldon declined to identify the employee, citing confidentiality matters.
Weldon described the documents as "2.5 terabytes" - as much as one-fourth
of all the printed materials in the Library of Congress, he added.

A Senate Judiciary Committee aide said the witnesses for the Sept. 21
hearing had not been finalized and could not confirm Weldon's comments.

Army Maj. Paul Swiergosz, a Pentagon spokesman, said officials have been
"fact-finding in earnest for quite some time."

"We've interviewed 80 people involved with Able Danger, combed through
hundreds of thousands of documents and millions of e-mails and have still
found no documentation of Mohamed Atta," Swiergosz said.

He added that certain data had to be destroyed in accordance with
existing regulations regarding "intelligence data on U.S. persons."

Weldon has said that Atta, the mastermind of the attacks of Sept. 11, and
three other hijackers were identified in 1999 by a classified military
intelligence unit known as "Able Danger," which determined they could be
members of an al-Qaida cell.

On Wednesday, former members of the Sept. 11 commission dismissed the
"Able Danger" assertions. One commissioner, ex-Sen. Slade Gorton, R-
Wash., said, "Bluntly, it just didn't happen and that's the conclusion of
all 10 of us."

Weldon responded angrily to Gorton's assertions.

"It's absolutely unbelievable that a commission would say this program
just didn't exist," Weldon said Thursday.

Pentagon officials said this month they had found three more people who
recall an intelligence chart identifying Atta as a terrorist prior to the
Sept. 11 attacks.

Two military officers, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Navy Capt. Scott
Phillpott, have come forward to support Weldon's claims.