GLENN VS. MUKASEY'S DOJ

Glenn Greenwald got a reply form DOJ about AG Mukasey's claim that legal restrictions on tapping prevented us from stopping 9-11. As usual, Glenn knifes through the lies and misleading truths to get to the heart of the matter (pics of docs on Glenn's post) :

(3) There is only one reference in the Joint Inquiry report (.pdf) that has any remote similarity to what Mukasey described (p. 36), but that was a call that originated in the U.S., not in an "Afghan safe house":

Critically, the Report emphasized that FISA provided all of the authority needed to have intercepted that communication, to learn of its domestic origins and to disseminate it to the FBI and other domestic intelligence agencies. To the extent the NSA failed to do so, this had nothing to do with FISA or any other legal restraints or civil liberties, but rather, with poor intelligence practices:The pre-9/11 failures, as the Joint Inquiry itself concluded, were failures resulting from how the NSA used its legal authorities, not from insufficient legal authorities or excessive legal restraints.