Vi Adkins has been keeping on top of the Able Danger story, and reports that Rep. Weldon says the Able Danger data was not destroyed after all. Quoting Weldon’s press conference:
It’s very troubling to me that it appears as though the DOD witness did not tell the truth. We had testimony that all of the Able Danger data-mining material was destroyed. I now know that that’s not the case. In fact, I now know there’s data still available. And I am in contact with people who are still able to data mining runs on pre-9/11 data. In those data runs that are now being done today, in spite of what DOD said, I have 13 hits on Mohammed Atta, spelled Mu and Mo. Not Mohammed Attif, not Mohammed Attel; Mohammed Atta. Thirteen times we have hits in the data that’s still available, that we were told was destroyed. That was pre-9/11 data, where Mohammed Atta’s name was spelled two different ways, but it was Mohammed Atta.