Bush Lies, Again (Surprise, Surprise)

[kpete]

Bush Lies, Again (Surprise, Surprise)
by mcjoan
Wed Dec 21, 2005 at 12:01:20 PM PDT
Via the LA Times, and Ezra Klein we get another whopper from our would-be King George.


In his radio address Saturday, Bush said two of the hijackers who helped fly a jet into the Pentagon -- Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar -- had communicated with suspected Al Qaeda members overseas while they were living in the U.S.

"But we didn't know they were here until it was too late," Bush said. "The authorization I gave the National Security Agency after Sept. 11 helped address that problem in a way that is fully consistent with my constitutional responsibilities and authorities."

But some current and former high-ranking U.S. counter-terrorism officials say that the still-classified details of the case undermine the president's rationale for the recently disclosed domestic spying program.

Indeed, a 2002 inquiry into the case by the House and Senate intelligence committees blamed interagency communication breakdowns -- not shortcomings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or any other intelligence-gathering guidelines.
http://www.dailykos.com/
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-targets21dec21,0,1826102.story?coll=la-home-headlines&vote21053367=1
http://ezraklein.typepad.com/#extText8028609

[rodeodance]

1. good for the LA times!

[billybob537]

2. You can tell when he's lying

His lips move.