Mukasey Hints: USA-guilty of malfeasant complicity in the 9/11 attacks,"

[kpete]

Mukasey hints US had attack warning before 9/11

"Either the attorney general just admitted that the government for which he works is guilty of malfeasant complicity in the 9/11 attacks," Olbermann commented, "or he's lying."

David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday April 1, 2008

When Attorney General Mukasey delivered a speech last week demanding that Congress grant the president warrantless eavesdropping powers and telecom immunity, the question and answer session afterwards included one extraordinary but little-noticed claim.

Mukasey argued that 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."

Blogger Glenn Greenwald picked up on Mukasey's statement, suggesting, "If what Muskasey said this week is true -- and that's a big 'if' -- his revelation about this Afghan call that the administration knew about but didn't intercept really amounts to one of the most potent indictments yet about the Bush administration's failure to detect the plot in action. Contrary to his false claims, FISA -- for multiple reasons -- did not prevent eavesdropping on that call."

Keith Olbermann has now featured the story on MSNBC's Countdown. "What?" Olbermann asked incredulously after quoting Mukasey. "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?"

more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Mukasey_US_had_attack_evidence_before_0401.html

[Stinky The Clown]

1. This story will go exactly nowhere.

That doesn't speak to its import or its veracity.

It is too small a detail and fraught with too much speculation. it is very easy to blow it off ..... and of course the media will.

[Atman]

2. Except maybe to The Dungeon

No talking about "that event" here.

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[Lochloosa]

3. ....

[moodforaday]

11. It's probably false, though

or significantly overstated. Bear in mind he's not holding Bush to account, he's asking for more better spying power for Bush.

[Echo In Light]

4. Maybe not dungeon-bound since safe Olbermann is involved?

[gordianot]

5. 9/11 passes into the realm of legend where truth no longer matters.

I am convinced this part of the national character how we deal with wars, assassinations, national tragedies. For example it took almost 100 years to investigate the real reason for the explosion of the Battleship Maine. Who knows today why we went to war with Spain, who cares?

Our Grandchildren or Great-Grandchildren may learn the truth, by that time however few will really care; or total authoritarian dictatorships will finally become possible and no one will be allowed to care.

[Echo In Light]

7. 100 yrs down the line? Wouldn't count on it. We'll be extinct by then

[gordianot]

8. There will a few slugs who manage to live in caves or extended shelters

In this country my guess is many will be the survivors of wealthy Corporatist and Republican families who will evolve into Morlocks.

[Echo In Light]

9. The elites already have their elaborate doomsday bunker/compounds set to go

Blind faither optimists like to espouse the notion that "moonbats have been worrying about the end of the world since the dawn of time" as a way of trivializing present concerns.

However, what they usually fail to include is that, within the bigger picture, our species has only co-existed with thousands upon thousands of extinction-ensuring weapons for a very, very short period of time.

[L. Coyote]

6. DUPE = thread here:

Mukasey hints US had attack warning before 9/11 = "...didn't do anything about it?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3092699

[Supersedeas]

10. thanks for the link

[moodforaday]

12. This should be news to no-one

but if it is, please read this related post by Paul Thompson:

What Mukasey said is just a drop in the bucket
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3092699&mesg_id=3093341

[Quantess]

13. I'm sure it's news to a few people out there.

A lot of people simply don't pay attention.

[L. Coyote]

14. New paradigm promulgated. "We must have total surveillance ...

And where is the talk of promulgating peace!