The cancellation of this program happened quite a few months into GWB’s administration. Maybe the buck stops there.
“””””Though Binney and a number of others left the NSA when it instituted the illegal wiretap program, “”””
Is he saying 9/11 would have been prevented if the government was able to tap all our phones illegally?
If Clinton would have taken care of bin laden when he attacked the towers in 1993 then none of this would be necessary.
Most of the idiots in the country are led to believe that 9/11 was the first attack by terrorists on American soil. Hildabeast should be asked about this extensively. All that happened when she was co-president Billary.
It was during the Reagan and GHWB years that the permanent bureaucracy started doing their own thing. I suspect leftovers from Carter years, but by the time Jamie Gorelick went out of her way to block intelligence agency crosstalk, that leftists decided that they could operate no matter who was president.
Conspiracies? Yep, but not involving the higher ups ... until the higher ups agree with the permanent bureaucracy.