Sept. 11 military cover-up alleged
By BART JANSEN Washington D.C. Correspondent
Erik Kleinsmith, who trains others in intelligence gathering for Lockheed Martin Information Technology, was an Army major in intelligence who worked on Able Danger. He said the data “allowed us to map al-Qaida as a worldwide threat with a surprisingly significant presence within the United States.”
But he told the committee that he ordered the destruction of the program’s documents based on military regulations calling for routine elimination. “This destruction was dictated by and conducted in accordance with intelligence oversight procedures that we lived by,” Kleinsmith said.
Was Pentagon Tracking Mohamed Atta
Just Days Before 9.11 Attack?
September 19, 2005-Venice, FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker
…Pentagon officials told a hastily arranged briefing for reporters that much data generated by the project has already been destroyed in accordance with standard operating procedure for handling material that might contain the names of Americans.
Oddly enough, this is the same excuse used by the secretive National Security Administration—the NSA—in revealing that they had destroyed tapes with 9.11 evidence, including conversations between Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Mohamed Atta, just weeks after the 9.11 attack.
“Analysts at the super-secret National Security Agency, acting on advice from the organization’s lawyers, have been destroying data collected on Americans or US companies since the Sept. 11 attacks – angering other intelligence agencies seeking leads in the antiterrorist probe, according to two people with close intelligence ties,” reported the Boston Globe on Oct 27,2001. (Spy agency destroys data, angering others in probe.)