F. de Marzipan
04-03-2008, 01:25 PM
Read 'em and weep, kids. Weep for the 3000 lost on 9/11 and the 4000 lost in Iraq because of it.
Mukasey backs Bush efforts on wiretapping (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/28/BA69VROE9.DTL)
Attorney General Michael Mukasey defended the Bush administration's wiretapping program Thursday to a San Francisco audience and suggested the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could have been prevented if the government had been able to monitor an overseas phone call to the United States.
The government "shouldn't need a warrant when somebody picks up a phone in Iraq and calls the United States," Mukasey said in a question-and-answer session after a speech to the Commonwealth Club.
Before the 2001 terrorist attacks, he said, "we knew that there had been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went. You've got 3,000 people who went to work that day, and didn't come home, to show for that."
Mukasey did not specify the call to which he referred. He also did not explain why the government, if it knew of telephone calls from suspected foreign terrorists, hadn't sought a wiretapping warrant from a [FISA] court established by Congress to authorize terrorist surveillance, or hadn't monitored all such calls without a warrant for 72 hours as allowed by law. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for more information.
A congressional investigation found in 2003 that the National Security Agency had intercepted messages between one of the Sept. 11 hijackers and an al Qaeda safe house in the Middle East as early as 1999, but had not shared the information with other agencies.
Amazing, isn't it?
And this comes out in a discussion of why our government needs MORE wiretapping authority, when, as we all know, they simply had to go to the existing FISA courts to cover their lying asses every way from Sunday, and maybe 7000 Americans wouldn't be dead now (and who knows how many Iraqis).
To quote Keith Olbermann:
What? The government knew about some phone call from a safe house in Afghanistan into the U.S. about 9/11? Before 9/11? ... You didn't do anything about it?
Either the attorney general just admitted that the government for which he works is guilty of malfeasant complicity in the 9/11 attacks, or he's lying.
http://www.discussanything.com/forums/images/smilies/nonono.gif
Wonder how long (or even IF) the mainstream media/Congress will pick this up and run with it?
Mukasey backs Bush efforts on wiretapping (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/28/BA69VROE9.DTL)
Attorney General Michael Mukasey defended the Bush administration's wiretapping program Thursday to a San Francisco audience and suggested the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could have been prevented if the government had been able to monitor an overseas phone call to the United States.
The government "shouldn't need a warrant when somebody picks up a phone in Iraq and calls the United States," Mukasey said in a question-and-answer session after a speech to the Commonwealth Club.
Before the 2001 terrorist attacks, he said, "we knew that there had been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went. You've got 3,000 people who went to work that day, and didn't come home, to show for that."
Mukasey did not specify the call to which he referred. He also did not explain why the government, if it knew of telephone calls from suspected foreign terrorists, hadn't sought a wiretapping warrant from a [FISA] court established by Congress to authorize terrorist surveillance, or hadn't monitored all such calls without a warrant for 72 hours as allowed by law. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for more information.
A congressional investigation found in 2003 that the National Security Agency had intercepted messages between one of the Sept. 11 hijackers and an al Qaeda safe house in the Middle East as early as 1999, but had not shared the information with other agencies.
Amazing, isn't it?
And this comes out in a discussion of why our government needs MORE wiretapping authority, when, as we all know, they simply had to go to the existing FISA courts to cover their lying asses every way from Sunday, and maybe 7000 Americans wouldn't be dead now (and who knows how many Iraqis).
To quote Keith Olbermann:
What? The government knew about some phone call from a safe house in Afghanistan into the U.S. about 9/11? Before 9/11? ... You didn't do anything about it?
Either the attorney general just admitted that the government for which he works is guilty of malfeasant complicity in the 9/11 attacks, or he's lying.
http://www.discussanything.com/forums/images/smilies/nonono.gif
Wonder how long (or even IF) the mainstream media/Congress will pick this up and run with it?