The intrepid Ed Morrissey at Captain’s Quarters reports that two new sources may be coming forward, including the naval intelligence officer who made the Atta claims to the 9/11 Commission right before its report was issued in July 2004.

Captain Ed also has an intriguing passage that may be germane to my previously repeated puzzlement about why we haven’t heard from the Pentagon yet about back-up documentation:

Shaffer also added an interesting detail to the Able Danger story. Several CQ readers have wondered whether the program still exists. Shaffer says that his liaison to the program shut down months before the attack on the order of a “risk-averse” commanding general at DIA. In fact, this general had to order Shaffer to cut all ties with Able Danger, explicitly pulling rank over Shaffer’s objections. His files at the DIA on Able Danger have also gone missing from their last known storage location, although the Pentagon has started a search, and files get jockeyed around enough to know that this may well be a simple case of misplacement.