Before the 2001 terrorist attacks, he said, "we knew that there had been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went. You've got 3,000 people who went to work that day, and didn't come home, to show for that."
Mukasey did not specify the call to which he referred. He also did not explain why the government, if it knew of telephone calls from suspected foreign terrorists, hadn't sought a wiretapping warrant from a court established by Congress to authorize terrorist surveillance, or hadn't monitored all such calls without a warrant for 72 hours as allowed by law. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for more information.
---------------------Now I would guess that Mukasey, the Attorney General, knows that the call from Afghanistan could be monitored without a prior warrant, and that in the entire 29-year history of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that warrants have been declined only four times. I don't really think this is a statement about a real phone call- I think this is a bald-faced lie. But that's not surprising at all. Lies, lies, and more lies have been the clear policy of the Bush Administration on national security matters from day one. You voters out there aren't allowed to know the truth about anything, because you are not qualified to make important decisions about your own security.
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