Did the NSA Lose a Sept. 11 Hijacker? (Time)

[lkinsale]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,466609,00.html

The National Security Agency missed a prime opportunity in early 2000 to crack the Sept. 11 plot, according to a forthcoming congressional investigation of the attacks. The report of the House and Senate Intelligence committees, to be released Thursday, will say that the NSA intercepted and analyzed "several communications" between future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al Midhar and an al-Qaeda safe house in the Middle East. But despite the agency's vaunted signals intelligence (SIGINT) technology, which enables it to intercept telephone, radio, cell phone, e-mail and fax messages worldwide, the NSA didn?t realize that the messages, from someone vaguely identified as "Khalid," originated in the U.S., the report charges. As a result, the FBI wasn?t alerted to what could have been a valuable lead.

[DagmarK]

1. so, it is Clinton's fault????????

early 2000 is Clinton's term......

[Zero Gravitas]

2. Of Course

You don't expect the sitting "President" to take responibility for anything that happens on his watch unless it makes him look good, do you?