MUKASEY & "THE CALL" UPDATE

Mukasey amends his earlier statement and asserts that he got the geography wrong. This is a minor point that doesn't affect his important claim: If we could've tapped it, there would've been no 9-11. In fact, he appears to admit that the NSA did tap the call.

From ABC News:

Along the same lines, Mukasey was asked whether remarks he made last month in a speech in San Francisco in which he alluded to what seemed to be previously unknown details about the 9/11 attacks and communications among the hijackers when he said, "We knew that there has been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan, and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went."

Asked about that statement Thursday, Mukasey told the senators that he misspoke and that he "had the geography wrong."

Mukasey said he was discussing a terrorist facility in the Middle East, which was being monitored by the NSA. Details of that location had been previously reported.

This doesn't address Mukasey's major claim: If we had been able to tap the call, we would've prevented 9-11. Neither the NYT nor the WaPo even mentioned this in their coverage.