Bush caught lying: misleading reference in radio address to spying case

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THE NATION
Officials Fault Case Bush Cited
Internal breakdowns, not shortcomings in spy laws, were at play before Sept. 11, they say.

By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer

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.


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Those links made the safe house one of the "hottest" targets being monitored by the NSA before the Sept. 11 attacks, and had been so for several years, the officials said.

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Under authority granted in federal law, the NSA already was listening in on that number in Yemen and could have tracked calls made into the U.S. by getting a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.


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"It's total hubris. It's arrogance by the people doing this," said a second senior U.S. counter-terrorism official. "This is a 24-hour thing, and you can get these kinds of warrants immediately. I think they are just being lazy."



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[dennis4868]

1. I think they are just being lazy

not laziness.....they are obviously spying on their enemies and the FISA court would never allow that.

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2. Here is a video showing that our prez is a liar

Just click it on, no hoops to jump through

Video of junior lying

[SpiralHawk]

3. Not laziness at all

A manic arrogant aggressive disregard of the law of the land to do whateverthefuck they want. Because they fancy themselves the Elite Occult Skull & Boner Republican BushCo Big Shots. But they are basically running on fear at the psychological level. That's what drives the NeoCon culture of corruption: fear.

But this, too, shall pass.