TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Monday, February 06, 2006

Good stuff fouind in this mainstream item, even if it fails to mention that the San Diego "hijackers" had an FBI informant as a landlord -- much less the questions abuot Flight 77's presence at the Pentagon or even Dulles that day.

From NY Daily News January 27, 2006:

"In speech after speech, President Bush claims that if the National Security Agency could have wiretapped two Al Qaeda operatives living in San Diego, the 9/11 attacks might have been thwarted.

That's a whopper, critics say.

"We didn't realize they were here plotting the attack until it was too late," Bush said Wednesday at NSA headquarters.

"It's not true," ex-9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey, president of the New School in Manhattan, told the Daily News. "We knew about those two guys - the CIA lost them."

The two men were Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar.
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Yet Bush and Vice President Cheney repeatedly have cited the case as an example of how warrantless spying inside the U.S. might have saved 3,000 lives - a claim Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) yesterday blasted as "revisionism."

"The White House has thrown together a public relations campaign to invent excuses for why they have done this program illegally and this claim is part of that effort," Leahy said.

Asked yesterday why he maintains the NSA could have stopped the 9/11 plot, Bush pinned it on his No. 2 intelligence aide, the ex-NSA director, saying, "Well, [Gen.] Michael Hayden said that because he believes that had we had the capacity to listen to the phone calls from those from San Diego, we might have gotten information necessary to prevent the attack."
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