Glenn Greenwald, in an article titled, "Michael Mukasey's tearful lies," says that Mukasey "has conclusively proven himself to be an exact replica of Alberto Gonzales -- slavishly loyal to every presidential whim and unbound by even the most minimal constraints of truth while serving those whims."
Greenwald refers to a speech Mukasey made in San Francisco last week in which Mukasey committed "multiple falsehoods," and revealed "a pretty startling new revelation ... about the Bush administration's pre-9/11 failure that requires a good amount of attention."
The lies are pretty much what you'd expect from someone tied to the Bush White House. But the "new revelation" is most interesting. Mukasey claimed that before 9/11, "We knew that there has 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."
Greenwald wants to know why. A warrant wasn't needed. If the Bushites knew that a terrorist-type person was calling the U.S., why in god's name didn't they listen in? And as Greenwald says, "Mukasey's new claim that FISA's warrant requirements prevented discovery of the 9/11 attacks and caused the deaths of 3,000 Americans is disgusting and reckless, because it's all based on the lie that FISA required a warrant for targeting the 'Afghan safe house.' It just didn't."
Please read this very important article in its entirety here.
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So...what else is new? If Congress has no power to do anything about abuses of power, then what can be done?
Bob Poris
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