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!
Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 01:04:33 PM PDT
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:
- danger durden’s diary :: ::
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!