Von Cracker on the hunt

Filed in Uncategorized by on April 3, 2008

This should pretty much make you sick.  It really lends itself to the LIHOP Conspiracy.  Jason, dust off that hat!

UPDATED x5: Mukasey’s referenced pre-9/11 call in speech NOT IN 9/11 REPORT!

Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s trip to San Jose to speak to telecom leaders last week seems to have gone almost completely under the radar:

Officials “shouldn’t need a warrant when somebody with a phone in Iraq picks up a phone and calls somebody in the United States because that’s the call that we may really want to know about. And before 9/11, that’s the call that we didn’t know about. We knew that there has 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.”

At that point in his answer, Mr. Mukasey grimaced, swallowed hard, and seemed to tear up as he reflected on the weaknesses in America’s anti-terrorism strategy prior to the 2001 attacks. “We got three thousand. . . . We’ve got three thousand people who went to work that day and didn’t come home to show for that,” he said, struggling to maintain his composure.

At the time of the attacks, Mr. Mukasey was the chief judge at the federal courthouse a few blocks away from the World Trade Center.

The story that the media at large focused on was Mukasey choking on his crocodile tears while talking about thevictims of 9/11, entirely missing the other story.

Mukasey’s quote that they had known that a call coming from a safe house in Afghanistan to the United States made the hair on my neck stand on end, because if Mukasey wasn’t lying or tripping over his own words – and according to Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann – he just admitted criminal malfeasance on the part of the administration for what happened on 9/11!

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  1. Al Mascitti says:

    Glenn Greenwald over at Salon has been all over this story. Check it out at:

    http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/03/mukasey/

  2. Brian says:

    That splat sound you have have heard was my brain shooting out of my ears and hitting the wall after the huge vascular hemorage I just suffered.

  3. anon says:

    a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan

    Wait – I thought Saddam planned 9/11 !!

  4. liberalgeek says:

    Here’s the absolute BS of this. I am certain that the long distance provider billed the safe house for the call. They know where it went and where it came from.

    And with FISA, you may listen to that call, but you have to get retroactive permission. This is complete and utter bull.

  5. yup. I read about it this morning over on the Kos from McJoan. The implications for FISA are huge. FISA wasn’t even needed in this case of monitering a non-American in Afghanistan and even if Bushie wanted to get a warrant, he could have but he didn’t try to moniter these calls.
    McJoan spins this with a deliciously filthy reminder that in these weeks before 911, Jenna was on a drunken binge on the Southern Continent under supervision of a full detail of special agents etc. etc. etc.

    http://mcjoan.dailykos.com/ Priorities