The NSA's pre-9/11 wiretapping failed to keep us safe!! Let us not forget!

[journalist3072]

For anyone who argues that the wire-tapping will help keep us safe and prevent another 9/11, just kindly remind them of what happened on September 10, 2001:

The National Security Agency intercepted communication between Al-Qaeda operatives that said "tomorrow is zero hour" and "the match begins tomorrow."

However, the failed to TRANSLATE those conversations until the day AFTER 9/11.

Why was no one from the NSA ever called onto the carpet for the failure to do a same-day translation of that intercepted communication?

What's the point of intercepting the communication, if you don't act on it in a timely fashion?


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/06/20/zero-day-usat.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/21/terror/main512988.shtml