10,000 “DESTROYED” ABLE DANGER DOCUMENTS STILL CLASSIFIED By W. Scott Malone
The Bear on May 31 2006 at 7:26 am | Filed under: Need to Know
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 20) – In two possibly related developments in the past week, the Pentagon denied access to almost 10,000 pages of classified documents relating to a top-secret intelligence program senior officials have three times previously testified were destroyed or unable to be located. And the attorneys for the secret team members who disclosed the existence of the data-mining counter-terrorism program, called ABLE DANGER, have argued in a new court filing that they be “cleared” to review such files.
The Defense Department’s Inspector General’s office (DoD-OIG) and the joint Special Operations Command (SOCOM) have amassed some 9,500 pages of documents on a program that senior DoD and 9/11 Commission officials have stated repeatedly were destroyed or can no longer be located.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, “The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, has determined that approximately 9,500 pages of these collected documents are potentially responsive to your FOIA request.”
The still ongoing Inspector General’s Office investigation was cited as the primary reason for exempting the documents from public release. Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Dr. Stephen Cambone, had promised congressmen last February that the OIG report would be completed by May. It has not been released. The letter of denial, which came from Cambone’s office, was dated the 8th of May.
Pentagon, ABLE DANGER, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence
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