if NSA had intercepted al Qaeda Ops Chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Karachi talking to Mohamed Atta in Laurel, Maryland, in say, July of 2001 -- if NSA had done that, and the results had been made public, I'm convinced that the crawler on all the 7 by 24 news networks would not have been "NSA domestic spying."
Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional judgment that we would have detected some of the 9/11 al Qaeda operatives in the United States, and we would have identified them as such.
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| Posted by Howlin On News/Activism ^ 01/23/2006 5:16:26 PM CST · 49 replies · 866+ views powerlineblog.com ^ | January 23, 2006 Hayden Delivers Impassioned Defense of NSA Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency, delivered a brilliant and heartfelt speech on the NSA's international terrorist surveillance program at the National Press Club today. You can, and should, read it all here. What follows are just a few of the many highlights: In the days after 9/11, NSA was using its authorities and its judgment to appropriately respond to the most catastrophic attack on the homeland in the history of the nation. That shouldn't be a headline, but as near as I can tell, these actions on my... |
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My guess is that he was a "journalist" working for moveon.org.
TOP SPY: DOMESTIC SPYING PROGRAM COULD HAVE DETECTED 9/11 PLOT
WASHINGTON — In a wide-ranging defense of the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance program, the government’s No. 2 intelligence official said Monday that the spy agency’s operations are not a drift net over U.S. communities.
Gen. Michael Hayden, former NSA director, described the 4-year-old program as narrowly targeted, using the same tools and techniques employed to decide whether to drop a 500-pound bomb on a terrorist target.
“Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional judgment that we would have detected some of the al-Qaida operatives in the United States,” Hayden said.
Great speech by General Hayden. The facts always get in the way of the lefty agenda.
On a side note, I notice the first question was posed by Wayne Madsen "QUESTION: Yes, Wayne Madsen, syndicated columnist." If it is the same Madsen I am thinking of, the guy is a wacko.
Here is one of the books written by Wayne Madsen:
"America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II with John Stanton (Dandelion Books, 2003)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen
As long as the left has idiots like Wayne on their side, the GOP will be in good shape.
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Guess Travis just forgot to mention that he's also a member of The Revolutionary Communist Party - San Francisco Bay Area Branch...
I watched this on C-SPAN, then read this morning's USA Today and felt there must have been 2 briefings. Travis Morales and the Knight-Ridder, were real dipsticks.
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I was laughing my @ss off during his interview. He blew away any excuse for not doing what Bush did. Libs had their butts handed to them by this guy.