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Vice chair of 9/11 panel:
We have no record of Mukasey's 'warning'
Mike Sheehan
Raw
Story
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The vice chair of the prominent 9/11 Commission is denying Attorney
General Michael Mukasey's claim that the US received a warning
before the attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, Salon reports.
"I am unfamiliar with the telephone call that Attorney General
Mukasey cited in his appearance in San Francisco on March 27.
The 9/11 Commission did not receive any information pertaining
to its occurrence," said former Rep. Lee Hamilton in a statement
received by Salon's Glenn Greenwald, who has closely followed
the Mukasey revelation.
"Hamilton's statement is consistent with the statement of
9/11 Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow, as well as
the letter sent to Mukasey by House Judiciary Committee Chairman
John Conyers and two Subcommittee Chairs, none of whom have any
idea what Mukasey was talking about," writes Greenwald.
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Given Hamilton's statement, Greenwald says "one of two things
is true" about Mukasey's alleged call from an "Afghan
safe house": either the White House concealed it from the
9/11 Commission, or Mukasey fabricated it "to scare and manipulate
Americans into believing that FISA and other surveillance safeguards
caused the 9/11 attacks..."
Last week, key House Democrats demanded an explanation from Mukasey
for the purported warning. In response, the Justice Department
cited a reference to an untraced call between a 9/11 hijacker
and "a known overseas terrorist facility" as well as
a February 2008 letter co-signed by Mukasey that blamed the failure
to intercept the call on the embattled Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA), a law requiring warrants for the government to perform
foreign intel surveillance.
Greenwald argued that the US government was "within its
mission" to obtain FISA authorization to monitor such a call,
yet the Bush administration appeared to be more interested in
obtaining greater domestic spying powers.
Greenwald's latest on the Mukasey revelation is available at
this link.
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