Mukasey LIES & Cries About Critical 9/11 Episode He Made Up To Scare Americans & Reveals Bombshell

[kpete]

Glenn Greenwald
Thursday April 3, 2008 07:04 EDT
Why doesn't the 9/11 Commission know about Mukasey's 9/11 story?

Does anyone on TV other than Keith Olbermann care that the Attorney General of the United States just invented a critical episode about 9/11 that never actually happened -- tearing up as he did it -- in order to scare Americans into supporting the administration's desired elimination of spying restrictions and blame FISA supporters for the 9/11 attacks? We still ought to hear from Hamilton and/or Kean.

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Last week, during a question-and-answer session following a speech he delivered San Francisco, Attorney General Michael Mukasey revealed a startling and extremely newsworthy fact. As I wrote last Saturday, Mukasey claimed that, prior to 9/11, the Bush administration was aware of a telephone call being made by an Al Qaeda Terrorist from what he called a “safe house in Afghanistan” into the U.S., but failed to eavesdrop on that call.

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Mukasey blamed FISA’s warrant requirement for the failure to eavesdrop on that call — an assertion which is, for multiple reasons that I detailed in that post, completely false. He then tearfully claimed that FISA therefore caused the deaths of “three thousand people who went to work that day.”

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The great significance of this story — that Mukasey either completely fabricated a key 9/11 event or just revealed a heretofore unknown 9/11 bombshell — is self-evident and made clear by these growing accounts. Having Hamilton, Kean and/or Zelikow comment on the veracity of Mukasey’s claims about the 9/11 attacks — as they ought to do — is vital for advancing the story.

more at:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/03/mukasey/index.html

[EFerrari]

1. But they have a period of time to go to the FISA court

AFTER they tap the call. He's lying outright.

[global1]

3. LIHOP.........nt

[suffragette]

12. That's the lie at the core of the situation

then he either added another lie to that if he fabricated the event or he just told us about yet another instance when they had information, had the means to act on it, and didn't.
Lie upon lie upon misrepresentation. Damn, I'm so tired of this.

[mopinko]

13. and they were already wiretapping us all, anyway.

lying, lying, lying. we need a smilie for this.

[Sean Stuart]

14. You're right and this is one of the most commenly forgotten facts every goddamn day in the media

They can get a goddamn warrant within 2 or 3 days AFTER starting their spying. AFTER. This fact alone debunks nearly every talking point Bush has catapulted about the need to gut intelligence oversight but you hardly ever ever hear it on the news. Maybe that's no accident. Who knows.

[spanone]

2. mr mukasey doesn't understand how fisa works...or he's lying

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. Keith Olbermann said it the other day, the Congress should get Mukasey under oath,

and explain what he said.

[pinto]

5. Kick

:kick:

[elehhhhna]

6. Was "the call" simply not TRANSLATED in time? Paging Sibel Edmonds!

[Irishonly]

7. I Am Not Sure

he would tell the truth under oath. He is as corrupt and dishonest as everyone else in the administration.

[Winterblues]

9. Well he would be in deep shit either way

If what he said was the truth the Administration is guilt of malfeasance and derelict of duty plus being a lie about FISA being responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. If he admits he just made the story up to try and get the Administration's demands met then he outs himself as a LIAR and completely unworthy of the position he holds. He screwed the pooch with that little speech..

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. In my time, when someone lied like this, they automatically were asked

out the door. Today, they get promoted for being a "team player."

[Solly Mack]

10. I'm going with... Mukasey is lying.

Either way...he's lying.

[Echo In Light]

11. K&R

[Supersedeas]

15. my guess...K Couric, Leslie Blit, Joe Skankborough, and Chuck Gib do not care

[rocktivity]

16. The result of sleep deprivation?

:evilgrin:

or...

WHAT IF HE'S LYING ABOUT HIS HAVING LIED???

:scared:
rocknation

[klyon]

17. this smells on so many levels

first how would you know if you didn't eavesdrop
if you did eavesdrop what happened to after, 911 did happen
so how could FISA be the problem
???

[suffragette]

18. K&R