9/11 was NOT preventable by Warrantless Wiretaps - CALL * OUT on this LIE

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Check this out hope that is not a dupe

Bush, Ashcroft, FBI Director Said 9/11 Attacks Were NOT Preventable

President Bush and other senior administration officials have tried to defend illegal domestic spying by arguing that it could have prevented 9/11. Bush included the argument in his State of the Union address:

It is said that prior to the attacks of September the 11th, our government failed to connect the dots of the conspiracy. … So to prevent another attack — based on authority given to me by the Constitution and by statute — I have authorized a terrorist surveillance program…

This argument is false, as several sources, including the Washington Post, have pointed out. But it also runs contrary to the administration’s previous line on the attacks. In 2002, President Bush and other top officials told Americans that September 11 could not have been prevented:

President Bush, 6/4/02:

Q Had the reform been put in place beforehand, if the FBI had been –

THE PRESIDENT: I haven’t seen any evidence –

Q — could the attacks have been stopped?

THE PRESIDENT: I’ve seen no evidence today that said this country could have prevented the attack


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FBI Director Robert Mueller, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, 6/2/02:

U.S. intelligence agencies could have better analyzed information that pointed to Sept. 11, but they probably could not have prevented the attacks, the attorney general and FBI director said Sunday. …

“The information we now have does not indicate that there was a substantial likelihood of detecting this,” Ashcroft said.


http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/07/911-not-preventable/

Seems like this would blow the WHOLE argument out of the water.:spank::spank::spank:

[Mythsaje]

1. And how would they have known who to tap,

considering that there was plenty of intel to lead them to the people in the first place and they never bothered to use it?

[fooj]

2. They are all liars. We must model the behavior of the patriots

who have come before us and fight like hell for what is right and what is just.

Peace.

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3. and in summary

So, to recap: President Bush was wrong in 2002, and he’s wrong now. The 9/11 attacks could have been prevented (as the 9/11 Commission found), but his illegal domestic spying program would NOT have done the job.

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4. kicking for awareness n/t

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5. Hello people - this BLOWS his argument out of the water n/t

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6. I guess I should have named thread - GET FREE PORNO HERE

[Blue Belle]

7. If they wanted to prevent 9/11...

perhaps they should have tapped the President's phone.

[helderheid]

8. They WERE tapping before 9/11 (Jan 2001) eom

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9. yeah we know that but the sheeple still think otherwise and they think

that Wiretaps are OK cause it would have prevented 9/11 but as my post so eloquently shows their argument is Bushit.

[helderheid]

10. guess we'll need to correct that.

[LynnTheDem]

11. bush has by law THREE DAYS to spy w/out warrant. WHY DIDN'T HE???

If he could have prevented 911 by wiretapping, WHY did he NOT WIRETAP for the 3 days while applying for a warrant???

[Nitrogenica]

12. * doesn't know where he is...umm

[smartvoter]

13. Yeah. If "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" generated nothing

what the hell would have? nt