A Pentagon official was asked to destroy documents that identified Mohamed Atta as a member of a militant group two years before Sep 11 attacks on the United States, a congressman has revealed.
The employee is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. He is expected to identify the person who ordered him to destroy the documents, said Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.).
Who -- and why -- ordered 2.5 terabytes of data referring to Able Danger, Al Qaida, and including Mohammed Atta, in the summer of 2000? And why did they not seek the approval.
The destruction of 911 evidence is not new. Six air traffic controllers provided accounts of their communications with hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001, on a tape recording that was later destroyed by Federal Aviation Administration managers, according to a government investigative report.
Why did Jeb Bush and federal agents seize records from Huffman Aviation - Florida flight school of Mohammed Atta, and other 9/11 hijackers - in the middle of the night following the attacks of September 11th and load them onto a C-130? And why did Jeb Bush know, hours after the attack, where to look?