Interesting, but a little like "the dog ate my homework."

Cordially...

Ants in his pants.

Just won't go away... Pentagon response will be "this was just normal procedure after a program is shut down.

It's not (not long enough), so that won't work.

And is it just me, or is anybody else bugged that reporters do not seem to understand there are two sets of "documents", paper, and electronic. I mean for crying out loud, the writer says "as much as 1/4 of all the printed material in the Library of Congress". If everybody in the D-ring started destroying that much paper, they'd be at it for 2 years.

sheesh.

2.5 terabytes? My BS detector just redlined.

2.5 terabytes? My BS detector just redlined.

Raw data? Sure. Depends on what you're looking for. If you were scanning every image on the net for steganographic messages you could burn a lot of storage pretty quick.

One largish EMC mainframe SCSI array full of Seagate Elites from that era would easily be 2.5T.

I bought 100 9G Elites a few years ago that came out of a single decommissioned EMC array somewhere in Nebraska. Nice drives - 50 year MTBF

In 1998, a year's worth of Wal-Mart's sales transaction data, by store, by item, was 3.2 Tb

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting fairly tired of the 911 Commission, the Jersey girls, etc. I caught the latest bit on CSPAN, where the whole dang group concluded that Able Danger "just didn't happen."

Then, to top it off, they complained about gov't delays in Katrina, something they were a very large part of creating. Give me a break, go away.

One would be VERY impressed at how fast we can shred/burn bag stuff.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

"Sandy Hamburgler was unavailable for comment."

I'm not saying that they don't have 2.5 terabytes of data.

Shit, I have 2.5 terabytes of data.

I'm saying that someone suggesting he destroyed 2.5 terabytes of data relating to Mohammad Atta raises a red flag for me.

I think its entirely possible that the analysis that ultimately LED to Atta could have involved 2.5T if you included all the dead-ends the process wound up sorting through.

By that, I mean the specific data sources that would be necessary to reproduce the result in the exact same manner it was generated.

As far as I know, 2.5 TB was the database for the whole Able Danger project, not just Atta.

The Feds have access to all phone records. One thing they might have done is to load all calls placed and received, then look for links and patterns to the phone numbers for known terrorists, or suspect locations like Pakistan or Hamburg.

They would have done the same with air & bus tickets, credit cards, passport visas, email patterns, etc.

This is what they said they did, load a bunch of data, then sort through it with a sophisticated mining tool they had developed.

Under these circumstances, 2.5 TB seems low, if anything.

I got yer 2.5 terrabytes right here.

your mom is 2.5 terabytes

Well the good news is that once the unredacted CIA 9-11Report is made available, we'll all be able to make up our own minds.

What? Porter Goss doesn't want to release it?

Oh. Never mind.

That's because its classified you fucking moron.

Oh, I forgot, you're on the side of the splodydopes, so giving them a peek at our classified shit is a GOOD THING.

Tubino:

Come on - the article doesn't say anything about which way Porter Goss is leaning. He's already given congress the classified version, and is now weighing their request for an unclassified version. Sounds like business as usual unless he refuses.

The article also says that the report casts Tenet in an unfavorable light. I think that's fine with everybody on the right: we have no love for Tenet or his performance.

One of Bush's biggest managerial flaws is that he values loyalty over competence.