Reply #141: The NSA thing is here

[KJF]

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KJF/13

One of the calls (made from San Diego) is mentioned in the FBI OIG report. The 9/11 Commission glossed over it and just said Almihdhar was calling his wife (who lived at the Al Qaeda communications hub - nice family!). AFAIK they didn't see the transcripts. Even if nothing with said, the NSA knew he was a terrorist and they knew he was in the US, so why did they sit on their hands? Apparently, the FBI had a standing request for everything from the Yemen number from 1998, but the NSA ignored it.

Re the VF article: most of this is a year or two old, although this was kind of startling:
"When they told me there was a hijack, my first reaction was 'Somebody started the exercise early,'" Nasypany later told me. The day's exercise was designed to run a range of scenarios, including a "traditional" simulated hijack in which politically motivated perpetrators commandeer an aircraft, land on a Cuba-like island, and seek asylum. "I actually said out loud, 'The hijack's not supposed to be for another hour,'" Nasypany recalled.

Basically, the MSM has just picked up something that's been around for a year or two and starting talking about it now for seemingly no reason. This happens all the time, IMO the media is very herd-like. In a bit they'll get bored and move onto something else (either 9/11 truth-related or not). The Moussaoui document-dump (with the Al Suqami's famous passport) is more interesting.