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9/11 See other 9/11 Articles Title: Mukasey Admits Government Knew Of Call About 9/11, Before 9/11 Mukasey Admits Government Knew Of Call About 9/11, Before 9/11 Echelon spy network would have intercepted, catalogued all transmissions Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, April 1, 2008 http://www. prisonplanet. com/articles/april2008/040108_government_knew. htm During a speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Thursday, Attorney General Michael Mukasey tacitly admitted that the U.S. government intercepted a call about 9/11 - before 9/11. 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," reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Mukasey is then reported to have "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. " Despite Mukasey using the example to justify warrantless wiretapping of Americans by claiming the government was unable to intercept the call, the fact is that no law would have prevented the government from listening in on the call. Existing FISA provisions would have covered the interception of the call. In addition, it would be naive to consider that Echelon - the global spy network run by the NSA - did not intercept and catalogue the call. In 1999, the Australian government admitted that they were part of an NSA-led global intercept and surveillance grid in alliance with the US and Britain that could listen to "every international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission," on the planet. It is admitted that the CIA had tracked the alleged hijackers to an Al-Qaeda meeting in Malaysia in January 2000 and then let them back into the US. The U.S. government was fully aware of their movements without the need for a phone tap and allowed them safe passage around the globe. As Newsweek reported, five of the named hijackers "received training at secure U.S. military installations in the 1990s". Under these circumstances, the contention that the U.S. government intercepted such a call but was unable or unwilling to listen to it due to legal restrictions is completely inconceivable. Mukasey's admission is therefore further evidence that the U.S. government was responsible for - at the very bare minimum - "malfeasant complicity in the 9/11 attacks," as Keith Olbermann stated on his MSNBC show yesterday. http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=r3VjCFNNFRQ Olbermann thinks it likely Mukasey is simply embellishing in order to propagandize for warrantless wiretapping, but the fact that the hijackers were carefully tracked every step of the way before 9/11 by the U.S. government and indeed trained at their military installations, in addition to Echelon having recorded phone conversations about 9/11 six months before the attack, strongly suggests that Mukasey unintentionally told the truth - and unequivocally let slip U.S.
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In addition, it would be naive to consider that Echelon - the global spy network run by the NSA - did not intercept and catalogue the call. But will it be spun? Related: Tricky Votes Loom For 3 Candidates
[snip] "The obstacle course begins immediately, with a Democratic- sponsored Senate vote today on legislation to ease the mortgage crisis. Next week, Iraq will dominate, when Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker testify before two committees on which Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) serve. By the week of April 21, sweeping housing legislation could reach the House floor. By the end of the month, an Iraq war funding bill could be moving, with a second economic stimulus package attached.
Republicans will counterpunch by pushing for a vote on tough immigration legislation, and by pressuring Democrats to cave in to their demands for legislation on surveillance of terrorism suspects that offers retroactive legal immunity to telephone companies that cooperated with the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping efforts. Will the strongest patriot please stand up?
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#7. To: lodwick (#5) Which part?????
#9. To: Peppa (#7) The one man band - (I only viewed a minute or so, and stopped before my head exploded.) I guess that we all have to do something in this life... Cheers to the high plains.
#10. To: lodwick (#9) I guess that we all have to do something in this life... Cheers to the high plains. Ah. Well, his style is fitting for the esteemed front-runners. ;) Should any of them 'win'. . . it's prudent to scale down the inaugural party expectations. We can use FRN's as confetti, and hire this guy for the entertainment. We can pay him replaying pretty speeches then tax his hearing.
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#11. To: Peppa (#10)
I hadn't thought of that. He could then be engaged to play Hail to the Thief whenever it's required.
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