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September 16, 2005
Able Danger and English Grammar
In the AP story everyone is quoting, Donna De La Cruz writes:
A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks, a congressman said Thursday.
Of course, there are two very different ways to read that sentence:
A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents (that identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks), a congressman said Thursday.
Or the opposite:
A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents (that identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist) two years before the 2001 attacks, a congressman said Thursday.
Clearly, the first version is correct, based on everything we know. On the otherhand, the second, false version is very intriguing so it is the one everyone is assuming. Well, I guess they will be in for a suprise next Wednesday. There is a lot we do not know about Able Danger, but we do know it started in the fall of 1999 and did not involve any time machines, so there would have been no way to destroy documents before they were even created would there?
Posted by Mike at September 16, 2005 01:36 PM
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