And Hussein OBobby, dearheart, if you’re so vewwy vewwy afraid – why don’t YOU go to Iraq and kick you some big bad raghead terrorist ass…?

We wouldn’t miss you. At. All.

Comment by FISAshouldn’tberedefinedbyDemtraitors — September 11, 2007 @ 4:30 pm

Bullshit. Bush still goes to FISA for domestic surveillance. That could include, I imagine, one terrorist in LA talking to another in Dallas, both using U.S. based landline phone systems. Funny that Bush doesn’t have time to go to FISA for domestic-international calls, but has plenty of time for domestic-domestic calls. Nobody in the Bush administration can explain this discrepancy.

European newspapers reported that the German terrorist cell was first uncovered late last year through U.S. intercepts under the old FISA law, with the intervening months between then and their recent arrest devoted to German authorities keeping them under surveillance and building their case against them.

The only reason BushCo and other culture of corruption Republicans put forward this FISA “revision” law at this time was to provide retroactive legal cover for all the U.S. telecommunications companies that have been participating in BushCo’s illegal, warrantless wire-tapping of U.S. citizens since even before the 9/11 attacks.

The old FISA law worked great, but only if in the hands of competent people, which, of course, immediately rules out anyone at the top levels of the Bush administration. For instance, one of the 9/11 hijackers was arrested several weeks before the 9/11 attacks, after a Mid-West flight school notified the FBI about this guy’s strange behavior. (He only wanted to learn how to fly 747s, not learn how to take-off or land them). This guy had a computer that field FBI agents wanted to check, so they contacted top Bush officials at the FBI for authority to do so. These officials said a warrant would be necessary, so turned down the request. These field FBI agents deperately tried to get this guy extradited to England, so a search could finally be conducted of his computer, once he was in British hands. He was scheduled to be flown to England on 9/11.

Of course, the old FISA law authorizes law enforcement to conduct a search without a warrant, with the proviso that law enforcement must apply for a retroactive warrant from the FISA court within several days (normal) or two weeks (time of war). This thwarted 9/11 hijackers computer, therefore, could have been checked a couple of weeks before 9/11, if only the top Bush officials at the FBI had followed the old FISA law’s protocols.

This proves, to me at least, that the Bush administration missed numerous opportunities to stop the 9/11 attacks, including using the old FISA to get at this guy’s computer. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, there were plenty of pre-9/11 dots to connect, as long as someone at the top levels of the Bush adminstration had been awake and willing to connect the dots…instead of obsessing over their planned war with Iraq.

So, unlike the lies in “The Path to 9/11,” the blood of all the people who died on 9/11 is solely on the hands of all the Bush administration officials, including the president’s, who dropped our nation’s guard before 9/11. Ever since then, everyone at BushCo and all Republicans are trying to hide their blood-soaked hands behind their backs, hoping no one will notice the blood of the 9/11 victims dripping, dripping, dripping…as well as the blood of Hurricane Katrina victims dripping, dripping, dripping…as well as the blood of mine-collapse victims dripping, dripping, dripping…and how can we forget the blood of all our soldiers (and Iraqis) killed over in Iraq after BushCo hyped and started a totally unnecessary and non-al Qaeda-related war…dripping, dripping, dripping.

No matter how hard Republicans try to hide the blood dripping from their hands by hiding behind lie after lie after lie, I’m not fooled. Nor am I fooled by their evil intent toward our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Our founding fathers (and mothers) would be shocked at what Republicans (and a few Democrats) have tried to do, or have done, to our great nation in the name of God and George W. Bush. Evil is as evil does, and I really doubt the God of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, is behind anything these war-mongering conservatives have done…and continue to do.

TRAITOR!

Comment by shane — September 11, 2007 @ 5:01 pm

Again with all that projecting. You need some serious help, son.

And I did my time in combat over 35 years ago, now is your time to step up to the plate.

Petraeus: No thanks.

Lieberman is a very, very dangerous man. Connecticut, what is wrong with you!

I do that all the time. You’re just now calling me out on that?

TRAITOR! GO ENLIST! BLAH BLAH BLAH!

Comment by shane — September 11, 2007 @ 4:50 pm

Projecting here, are we?