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com Weldon: Atta Papers Destroyed on Orders By DONNA DE LA CRUZ The Associated Press Thursday, September 15, 2005; The employee is prepared to testify next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee and was expected to identify the person who ordered him to de stroy the large volume of documents, said Rep. Weldon declined to identify the employee, citing confidentiality matters. A Senate Judiciary Committee aide said the witnesses for Wednesday hearin g 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 hu ndreds 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 existin g regulations regarding "intelligence data on US persons." Weldon has said that Atta, the mastermind of the attacks of Sept. "It's absolutely unbelievable that a commission would say this program ju st didn't exist," Weldon said Thursday. Pentagon officials said this month they had found three more people who r ecall an intelligence chart identifying Atta as a terrorist prior to the Sept. Scott Phillpott, have come forward to support Weldon's claims.
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