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Countdown: Mukasey’s FISA Fables - Lies or Admissions?

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We brought you Attorney General, Michael Mukasey’s tearful remarks about 9/11 and the ongoing FISA battle in Congress last week and on Tuesday’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow dig deeper into what was either a series of lies from the AG or an admission of gross negligence on the part of the Bush Administration leading up to that tragic day.

Mukasey claimed that the U.S. received a phone call from a terrorist safe house in Afghanistan prior to 9/11, but couldn’t trace the call because the FISA laws were too restrictive — which is, of course, a lie. Mukasey was a Federal Judge, he knows that. Olbermann says that someone in the House or Senate needs to haul the Attorney General in and question him and find out whether he was lying to make a political point, or if the Bush administration really did receive such a call and chose not to act on it, leaving the country vulnerable to attack.

Maddow:”…Oh please, just let him have just been lying, because if he was telling the truth here, if there really was a call from a known al Qaeda safe house in Afghanistan to the United States before 9/11 which the Bush Administration did not tap and trace? That is huge news and we ought to get some answers about why we were left so unprotected and surprised on 9/11. Let’s hope that he was just making that up.”

*On a side note, we would like to wish Rachel Maddow a very Happy Birthday!




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1
Bob in PA Says:

This is it: The smoking gun that will lead to a political mushroom cloud — IF there is even a vestige left of what used to be called the PRESS in this country.

2
milquetoast Says:

I’m beginning to wonder if Bush knew about 9/11?…before it happened.

(snark)

3
♣Bangkok Bob♠ Says:

Bob in PA @ 1:

This is it: The smoking gun that will lead to a political mushroom cloud — IF there is even a vestige left of what used to be called the PRESS in this country.

You will notice that there has been no mention of any of this in the MSM except for a fleeting sentence.

4
Friar Tuck Says:

Why do the always come clean after the fact??????
Where are the real pats standing up and taking aim for thier outspoken truth in the matter?

I just dont understand american anymore,, my birth country. Where is the real pats and where are the Jail times for those have commited treason?

5
Abbybwood Says:

Even if the press does pick it up, the leadership of the Democratic Party will ignore it all.

I’m convinced there is nothing that would move Nancy Pelosi or John Conyers to do the right thing.

I wonder why???

Please let us see impeachment hearings for treason. PLEEEEEEAAAASE!!!

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switchgrass Says:

I suspect Mukasey will soon have to “tend to family and personal issues.”

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CowboyBob in Austin Says:

Dan Abrams talked about this same issue directly after Coundtown.
I wonder if The Scar will mention it tomorrow on “Morning Joe?”
I think I’ll e-mail the program and DEMAND that they give it an airing…
and maybe CNN too…
and maybe all the rest of them too.

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♣Bangkok Bob♠ Says:

Is he saying there was a call and they knew where from (Afghanistan safe house) but they didn’t know where it went? Is he cornering himself in that statement. if not what the hell does he mean.

Thats like calling the police to report a killing in progress, the police saying they knew you called, but dont know what happened to the call (even though they admit they got it)

10
P.D. Says:

Is anybody in this administation who is honest? Is there anyone trustworthy? Jesus, and people thought the Clinton Adm. was bad.

11
pfeld Says:

Though an atheist I promise to thank god every day, for Rachael Maddow. And Keith, of course.

12
P.D. Says:

Cowboy Bob, We can only dream. . .

13
Friar Tuck Says:

We were sold down the river as americans!
sold , bought and paid for from the scums inside the hill at the time during 9/11.
ppl died saving lifes,, ppl died inside those buildings and yet where are those so called insiders that hid the intell?
no brain? no minds?

Its disgusting to know this was my former state NYS! where the fuck was the Gov at the time?
Piss on all of you repigs,, and BUSH supporters!!!!!!! ÁND the same for rudy lovers.

14
Truth B Told Says:

Tip toeing around the real 9-11 issues.

15
♣Bangkok Bob♠ Says:

corruption, lying, ineptitude, fear mongering traitorous bastards.

16
Don Davis Says:

Mukasey: Crocodile tears from the same guy who brought us a crock on waterboarding

17
Bugs Says:

Like Gonzales before him, and so many others in the Bush-league administration, Mukasey appears to be whoring himself at the altar of untrammeled executive power. Shame on them. Shame on us for letting him and his ilk get away with it.

18
Dahgrostab’ph-r-i Says:

Will these people never burn? I hope something comes of this but I’ve been disappointed so many times…the only thing that gives me any hope at all is how long it took to bring articles of impeachment to Nixon, but it was finally done. Now we just need to get the hearings that will stop this crap. The hearings that we were robbed of in the 70’s.

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P.D. Says:

SK, Why? Does he say something that bothers you? You know, the truth?

20
Leslie Says:

I’m shocked to learn that the Bush administration was incompetent: that they were warned repeatedly about 9/11 and did nothing. And then they lie about it for political reasons!? I’m absolutely shocked!

21
getalife Says:

Abbybwood @ 4:

Even if the press does pick it up, the leadership of the Democratic Party will ignore it all.

I’m convinced there is nothing that would move Nancy Pelosi or John Conyers to do the right thing.

I wonder why???

Their agenda is to get reelected. Nothing else matters to them.

He is probably lying because he is playing the 9/11 card lately. Still no justice in the Justice Dept. just another bush lawyer like Ganzo. You can thank Feinstein and Schumer for this guy.

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♣Bangkok Bob♠ Says:

SK @ 16:

Keith Olbermann is a blowhard.

why? because he has the balls to say what is happening?

23
sidewinder Says:

Why is anyone surprised at this?

According to Common Dreams:

We’ve been here before. As Christopher Dickey points out in an on-line commentary for Newsweek, just one month before terrorists struck the World Trade Center, “… panicked CIA analysts flew to Texas to brief Bush personally in [August] 2001, to intrude on his vacation with face-to-face alerts. Bush sized them up, as is his wont, looking to judge the content of what they told him by the confidence with which the message was delivered. Bush wasn’t convinced. ‘All right,’ said the president, ‘you’ve covered your ass now’… “

24
P.D. Says:

Leslie. I, too, am filled with rightous indignation.

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Truth B Told Says:

Bugs @ 17:

Like Gonzales before him, and so many others in the Bush-league administration, Mukasey appears to be whoring himself at the altar of untrammeled executive power. Shame on them. Shame on us for letting him and his ilk get away with it.

Mukasey proved himself reliable to the machinery of the state when he covered for it in the 1993 WTC bombing trial.

The trial where he, as trial judge, buried the secretly recorded conversations between the FBI and the informant about subbing out the real explosives, for dummy explosives. Of course, the FBI wanted the real explosives.

that earned Mukasey a nod for the AG.

26
Friar Tuck Says:

Take all your money out of the banks!!!!!!!!!!!!
every last dime and end the wallstreet ivestment too.
YOINK ETC X 100!!!!! take it all out and invest it in the euro and over seas banks!

LET the idiots in power in the states see the backlash,, and swallow hard and wonder wtf happend!

I trust not the FISA nor the banks in america,, really folks,, its just that bad!
piss on wallstreet! they knew,, we didint .

lies,,to make more money for the ubber rich? thats our goverment?????

INVEST overseas,, seems thats where the repigs and dumbos have thier money !

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Leslie Says:

P.D. @ 23:

Leslie. I, too, am filled with rightous indignation.

I was being somewhat sarcastic. But it really fries my bacon. I live in NYC, the WTC ash covered my neighborhood, friends worked in and around the WTC. And this ASSHOLE claims there was a call from an Afghan safe house!? Then tries to blame Democrats!? As if the GOP will keep us safer…with duct tape.

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♣Bangkok Bob♠ Says:

Leslie @ 26:

P.D. @ 23:

Leslie. I, too, am filled with rightous indignation.

I was being somewhat sarcastic. But it really fries my bacon. I live in NYC, the WTC ash covered my neighborhood, friends worked in and around the WTC. And this ASSHOLE claims there was a call from an Afghan safe house!? Then tries to blame Democrats!? As if the GOP will keep us safer…with duct tape.

Let’s see, they held both houses of Congress and the Executive Office and they still couldn’t do right by America and now they want to blame the people who didn’t have the power?

The 27% r’s will buy that, The Moron Factor.

29
♣Bangkok Bob♠ Says:

Well, I’m off to breakfast. … later folk.

30
Leslie Says:

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 29:

Well, I’m off to breakfast. … later folk.

Bye! Have a good one.

31
MountainMan23 Says:

OMG!!

9-11 Conspiracy Talk by Olbermann & Maddow ???

.. at long last ..

32
azureblue Says:

M’s statement is interesting, viewed in the context of how Bush & Rice pointedly ignored frantic warnings from Clark etc., the outgoing administration, plus international warnings, about an attack. Clinton’s people knew that an attack, most likely on the WTC and by airplane, was looming. Clark all but waved the data in Bush’s face. Others tried to warn him- they knew somethign was going to happen real soon . But Bush said, and a quote, “Fine, you’ve covered your ass”, when told. And Rice refused to even meet with them.

That is why, when Bush was told about the attacks, he registered no surprise, and simply returned to reading a book. Bush knew, and did nothing.

So M underscores this fact. They knew.

BTW I wonder how the Supreme Court feels, knowing what horror it brought upon this country by thwarting the election process and installing Bush as President

33
CowboyBob in Austin Says:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/co......show.html

hardball@msnbc.com

joe@msnbc.com

nightly@nbc.com

Above, please find FOUR AVENUES of APPROACH to enable you to sound off a bit if you are really angry about these revelations.

VENT… BE ANGRY… but also BE CIVIL.

Regards…

34
alecia Says:

Let’s not forget here that Mukasey was hand picked by Chuck Schumer…
It seems to me that Mukasey will shamelessly say anything that would benefit
his son who is an attorney for one of the telecom companies… To have an Attorney General who is using his post at the Justice Department to essentially lobby the country on behalf of his son’s interest is beyond the pale and Chuck Schumer should put a stop to it…

35
little bear Says:

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little bear Says:

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 3:

Bob in PA @ 1:

This is it: The smoking gun that will lead to a political mushroom cloud — IF there is even a vestige left of what used to be called the PRESS in this country.

You will notice that there has been no mention of any of this in the MSM except for a fleeting sentence.

Maybe the editors ban it - you know, just like it gets flamed and banned on many self-proclaimed “liberal” blogs.

37
Leslie Says:

azureblue @ 32:

M’s statement is interesting, viewed in the context of how Bush & Rice pointedly ignored frantic warnings from Clark etc., the outgoing administration, plus international warnings, about an attack. Clinton’s people knew that an attack, most likely on the WTC and by airplane, was looming. Clark all but waved the data in Bush’s face. Others tried to warn him- they knew somethign was going to happen real soon . But Bush said, and a quote, “Fine, you’ve covered your ass”, when told. And Rice refused to even meet with them.

That is why, when Bush was told about the attacks, he registered no surprise, and simply returned to reading a book. Bush knew, and did nothing.

So M underscores this fact. They knew.

BTW I wonder how the Supreme Court feels, knowing what horror it brought upon this country by thwarting the election process and installing Bush as President

What evidence do you have that Clinton knew the attacks would include the WTC? I’ve never heard that before. Although I have heard a similar complaint lodged against Giuliani–for basing the emergency response command center in the WTC, when the WTC had been attacked in 1993 and for his not taking terrorism seriously before 9/11.

38
xoites Hussein (non typical white person) defends Constitution Says:

P.D. @ 24:

Leslie. I, too, am filled with rightous indignation.

I am filled with indignation too.

Leftous indignation.

39
P.D. Says:

Leslie, I feel for you, and me, and the country.

40
vrunner Says:

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 29:

Well, I’m off to breakfast. … later folk.

Ah you an expat. Hmm, i’m seriously considering moving too if McCain comes in.

41
Spock Says:

The smoking gun!

42
ferrofluid Says:

Remember Atta was under CIA surveillance 24/7 while he was in Germany,
and when the arrived in the US the CIA passed him onto the FBI for the same.
Guess who then supposedly lost him and the others when they arrived in the US.
MI6 and CIA had moles deep inside the Al Q training camp, and had videos and details of people.
It was the domestic counterintelligence under meddling ‘new’ domestic politics that failed miserably that day and the months before.

43
little bear Says:

Leslie @ 20:

I’m shocked to learn that the Bush administration was incompetent: that they were warned repeatedly about 9/11 and did nothing. And then they lie about it for political reasons!? I’m absolutely shocked!

Its actually much worse than this - official story doesn’t hold up to scrutiny - you have just given us a “best case” scenario that actually gives most of the criminal cabal a “get out of jail free” card.

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Truth B Told Says:

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mudshark hussein Says:

Leslie @ 20:

I’m shocked to learn that the Bush administration was incompetent: that they were warned repeatedly about 9/11 and did nothing. And then they lie about it for political reasons!? I’m absolutely shocked!

I’m not.

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Leslie Says:

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little bear Says:

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ferrofluid Says:

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ferrofluid Says:

little bear @ 47:

nah nah nah nah

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Leslie Says:

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51
ferrofluid Says:

quickly inserts fingers in ears while making loud noises and closing eyes ;)

52
JohnJ Says:

I got a friend who’s daughter quit the FBI in early 2002; she said everyone at the top was worried about where to put chimpy on 9/11. Interesting he was near his smarter (and more corrupt) brother for the “event”.

No I don’t have a tin hat but story bothers the hell out of me because I know the source so well ( a pastor ).

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little bear Says: