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Why Doesn't the 9/11 Commission Know About Mukasey's 9/11 Story?
Last week, during a question-and-answer session following a speech he delivered San Francisco, Attorney General Michael Mukasey revealed a startling and extremely newsworthy fact. As I wrote last Saturday, Mukasey claimed that, prior to 9/11, the Bush administration was aware of a telephone call being made by an Al Qaeda Terrorist from what he called a "safe house in Afghanistan" into the U.S., but failed to eavesdrop on that call. Some help is needed from readers here to generate the attention for this story that it requires.
In that speech, Mukasey blamed FISA's warrant requirement for the failure to eavesdrop on that call -- an assertion which is, for multiple reasons that I detailed in that post, completely false. He then tearfully claimed that FISA therefore caused the deaths of "three thousand people who went to work that day." For obvious reasons, the Attorney Geenral's FISA falsehoods themselves are extremely newsworthy, but it is the story he told about the pre-9/11-planning call from Afghanistan itself that is truly new, and truly extraordinary.
Critically, the 9/11 Commission Report -- intended to be a comprehensive account of all relevant pre-9/11 activities -- makes no mention whatsoever of the episode Mukasey described. What has been long publicly reported in great detail are multiple calls that were made between a global communications hub in Yemen and the U.S. -- calls which the NSA did intercept without warrants (because, contrary to Mukasey's lie, FISA does not and never did require a warrant for eavesdropping on foreign targets) but which, for some unknown reason, the NSA failed to share with the FBI and other agencies. But the critical pre-9/11 episode Mukasey described last week is nowhere to be found in the 9/11 Report or anywhere else. It just does not exist.
Yesterday, I contacted Lee Hamilton, the 9/11 Commission Vice Chairman, to ask him whether the Commission was ever told about Mukasey's alleged Afghan Terrorist 9/11-planning telephone calls and/or the Bush administration's failure/inability to eavesdrop on such calls. Hamilton refused to comment, first claiming that he was in meetings all day yesterday and had no time to talk to me. When asked if he would comment today or whenever he had time, he said he was not going to comment on this ever, since he had not read Mukasey's speech. Calls to 9/11 Executive Director Philip Zelikow seeking comment were not returned and 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean could not yet be reached.
It's unacceptable for Hamilton to refuse to comment on Mukasey's claims. The whole purpose of the 9/11 Commission was to ensure that there was full-scale investigation and disclosure of all facts relevant to the 9/11 attacks, including the Government's actions and inactions in preventing that attack from occurring.
If the Attorney General of the United States, out of the blue, makes an extraordinary and new assertion in a public speech about an easy opportunity the Bush administration had to detect those attacks -- an opportunity he claims was lost because of eavesdropping laws -- Hamilton ought to say whether the Commission was ever told about this incident and/or whether Mukasey is telling the truth. Preventing high government officials from lying about the 9/11 attacks or exposing concealment of key 9/11 facts is his obligation as Vice Chairman of the Commission. Some type of comment from 9/11 Commission officials on Mukasey's claims is vital for generating further attention to this story and for compelling Mukasey to account for what he said.
Hamilton is currently the President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University. Please email him at the address below, politely set forth the extraordinary claims the Attorney General just made about the 9/11 attacks (with citations to media sources about the speech -- including here, here, and here), and urge him to fulfill his obligation as 9/11 Commission Vice Chair by confirming whether Mukasey's revelations are true and/or were disclosed to the Commission during its investigation: Lee.hamilton@wilsoncenter.org.
This isn't just a matter of academic and historical interest about the 9/11 attacks, although it is that. One of two things almost certainly happened here, each of which is of great importance. Either Mukasey is lying about the 9/11 attacks in order to manipulate Americans into believing that FISA's warrant requirements are what prevented discovery of the 9/11 attacks and caused 3,000 American deaths -- a completely disgusting act by the Attorney General which obviously cannot be ignored. Or, Mukasey has just revealed the most damning fact yet about the Bush's administration's ability and failure to have prevented the attacks -- facts that, until now, were apparently concealed from the 9/11 Commission and the public.
Since I wrote about this on Saturday, there has been some slowly evolving media attention paid to it. On Monday, I discussed the story on the radio with Rachel Maddow who, as always, grasped completely its importance. The following night, she was on Countdown with Keith Olbermman, which had a lengthy and detailed segment, highlighting all of the right questions (video below). Raw Story compiled a very thorough article with the key facts, and the top Daily Kos post this morning does the same.
The great significance of this story -- that Mukasey either completely fabricated a key 9/11 event or just revealed a heretofore unknown 9/11 bombshell -- is self-evident and made clear by these growing accounts. Having Hamilton, Kean and/or Zelikow comment on the veracity of Mukasey's claims about the 9/11 attacks -- as they ought to do -- is vital for advancing the story.
Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York. He is the author of the New York Times Bestselling book "How Would a Patriot Act?," a critique of the Bush administration's use of executive power, released in May 2006. His second book, "A Tragic Legacy", examines the Bush legacy.© Salon.com
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Show AllI have an eeree feeling that we are getting farther from impeachment. It's something we have been putting off, and it just gets easier to keep putting it off!
IMPEACH! You can start with the phoney investigation!
whatever4 - You hit the nail on the head! Bush could come out and admit he masterminded the whole thing, and people would STILL deny it. It's alot like religion...we could find a letter proven to be written by Jebus himself saying it's all a hoax. People wouldn't believe it: they have too much self-worth wrapped up in believing the myths they've been fed.
``Why Doesn't the 9/11 Commission Know About Mukasey's 9/11 Story?``
Read Peter Dale Scott`s *The Road to 9-11*
Please Mr. Greenwald, do you really think that the Commission has any interest whatsoever in addressing the truth?
Mukasey will not speak the truth unless he is authorized to do so by the B/C regime. Fat chance!
Ask anyone at all in this administration and they will tell you they can't recall having said that, having been there, having seen that, having heard that...in other words we have an entire administration with a dementia condition. The public is sold poor memory in place of facts and it is swallowed bait, line and sinker...I think that makes us suckers.
While we're askin, ask Diane Feinstein, Chucky Schumer. Shall we ask newspapers, t.v. 'news' outlets, why they don't ever ask?. First one to get an answer wins. Wait a minute, we have all lost. Pick any story this week. Look at what stays in the headlines. Look at what never gets there.
I couldn't agree more, that exactly how 911 specifically happened is important, but it immediately reminds me of the insane denial of most people on both sides of politics.
Popular thought is that ANYTHING other than the official story (two planes brought down two skyscrapers and one 47 story building) is stupid speculation, period. Tin foil hatters, is what we're called. How 911 happened might matter more than anything else, yet folks like Bill Mahr (don't care if I spelled it right) spew out hatred at the very idea of discussing things like WTC7. Watching him wig out about WTC7, at about the same level of intelligence as his occasional woman-hating joke, well it makes me realize a lot of things. One, that he isn't a good guy (and probably sold out big time on this issue), but mostly, that we probably aren't going to get anywhere closer to the truth, no matter what these insane officials accidentally admit. Too many people seem to be onboard with keeping discussion off-limits.
BushCo could admit they DID it and we'd still be ridiculed for being concerned, I swear. It's too insane.
Mr Greenwald hasn't figured this administration out. Lying is an actual strategy. And if called on a lie, simply don't respond, or respond with more lies. And it's a strategy that has worked perfectly for them.
Bush & Cheney assure themselves every day that "the Democrats will never do anything about anything" and Lee Hamiliton is proof of that. We also saw it with Hamilton and Iran-Contra.
And Kean? Zelikow?
The 9/11 Commission is as much fraud as the Warren Commission.
In 1968 we had ITT pressuring the CIA to eliminate Allende in Chile.
The strong and violent motivations which moved some to the coup on JFK also created Watergate and 9/11.
Here would be a good chance to use water boarding to obtain where and how Mukasey came upon this information. What is good for the goose is good for the gander must be implied someplace in the bill of rights. When it comes to getting the facts no holds should be bared, or heads dunked for that matter.
The email site for Mr. Hamilton doesn't seem to be working.
There's going to be silence for a while from Hamilton, Mukasey, Zelikow, and Kean, while they (and many others who work mostly behind the scenes) can coordinate a narrative that more-or-less resolves the contradiction that Mr. Greenwald is trying to expose.
It takes a while to put together a narrative solid enough to withstand scrutiny, but they must be working overtime as we speak. Once they are ready, the MSM will be notified that they can start the usual theather of breaking a story and doing the proper investigation. By then they will know that the damage can be contained reasonably well, and anybody not fully satisfied with the official explanation will be easily protrayed as unreasonable and on the fringe.
The routine is becoming predictable and boring.
Not sure what Greenwald is so upset about. Its not like Mukasey lied about dodging sniper fire in Bosnia. Now THAT would be an important story! This is just about a potentially critical intelligence failure leading up to 9/11 ...
Kane Jeeves,
You are right to say we should know better than to expect anything but lies and unresponsiveness from this administration. But Lee Hamilton is not a member of this administration. He is a former Democratic congressman from Indiana. Different standard.
I'd like to help but I just found out Jamie Lynn Spears is going to tie the knot and, well...well...I just can't focus. I wonder what she'll wear? Who will be invited? This is all so awesome! I mean, like, this really is big news!
Conscience got it right. The Warren and 9/11 commissions weren't formed to determine the facts but to cover them up and they did their job.
brissot, Bush picked the commission members, so it is no accident that Hamilton was on the Commission. There is no way anyone who couldn't be trusted to suppress the truth would have been allowed on the commission.
This story will gain no serious traction in the corporate media. Nor have the real stories about the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK and Wellstone. These are not acceptable topics for public discourse. I read that 42 people who were journalists or witnesses to the JFK assassination died under mysterious circumstances and everyone else just shut up. Wouldn't you? Sounds like a dictatorship to me.
kathyodat
Would Hamilton really let his reputation take the fall in order to shield a liar within the Bush Administration? Oh, say it ain't so!
Nevertheless, my email to Hamilton has already been sent. Has yours?
B/C regime- oh yeah, that must be the Bush/Klanton regime. The first letter apparently was a mistake.
I think we should be a bit more skeptical about an assassination of Paul Wellstone. The other has at least some solid evidence. But Wellstone really wasn't a threat to W and the neo cons in the way these other people were. He wasn't at all powerful, being one senator out of 100.
"For obvious reasons, the Attorney Geenral's FISA falsehoods themselves are extremely newsworthy"
Glenn, your stories may get more play in the mainstream media IF YOU DO A SPELLCHECK FIRST
General, not Geenral
It may seem naive for Mr. Greenwald to speak as if we should expect the 9/11 commission to be anything other than a cover-up.
But if enough Americans actually expected them to investigate, and not to cover up (instead of cynically throwing in the towel), then eventually, we might get a real investigation, or at least something closer to it. Nixon's resignation didn't come about because cynics threw in the towel and said, "That's just the way things are." It came about, in part, because things reached critical mass.
So for that reason, I thank Mr. Greenwald for expecting the kind of honesty and service of the commission that more of us should have consistently expected and demanded from the start.
Dream on...you will know the truth about 911 the day after you know the truth about JFK, Pearl Harbour, Gulf of Tonkin, or the many other lies from the US Government. Lying isn't just a hobby with the US government, it is the basis of the entire system
The 911 Commission is a modern version of the Warren Commission. The job was to make the "Facts" correspond with the cover story. Warren was given the result of the commission's findings when he was given the job, i.e., Lee Harvey Oswald, a "lone crazed assassin" killed Kennedy with an obsolete rifle with a loose scope, from the Texas Book Depository building. A lot of people died to get rid of stubborn pieces of evidence that didn't agree with the cover story.
911 is the same thing. Trained people at the scene ID'd the collapses as controlled demolitions. Engineers who have studied the construction of the towers have said the report's conclusions were impossible. The same thing for building 7, which had not been hit by anything and had a controllable fire in it. Then the decision was made to "pull the building" and it was dropped in it's own footprint also.
Then, there is the anomalous debris field at the Pentagon (no engine wreckage, etc.) and on and on. We'll never see the truth, but most thinking people know that the Warren Report was a whitewash, and so is the 911 report.
In both cases, the perps will no doubt walk away scott free and wealthier, while We the People will pay the price in loss of freedom and increasing poverty.
Didn't Lee Hamilton just recently endorse Obama?
The Ministry of Truth is on the job. don't forget, "Ignorance is Strength", and when they keep us busy sorting through tons of B.S. daily, trying to separate fact from fiction, who knows what is going on?
"Pay no attention to the Devil. He is a liar. He will mix lies and truth in order to confuse us."---The Exorcist
I just sent him an email too. Let's inundate him.
So?
It is irrelevant whether Bush co planned 9 11 or not. There was enough post 911 crimes and no one cares about them.
The danger in focusing on the conspiracy angle is that it romanticizes the news and detracts from the real things going on, especially when there is a 9 11 industry of crackpots--it devalues legitimate questions about the day(like what happened to the Israelis laughing as they filmed it). We all know Bush is a criminal.
In today's climate, if they had a picture of Bush blowing up the WTC no one would believe it anyway.
AD, The Senate was pivoting on the Minnesota election. Coleman was ahead until Wellstone came out with his intention to vote against the Iraq invasion, which he said he realized may well cost him the election but he had to do the right thing. I've lived in Minnesota and one thing they admire is courage and integrity. The poll numbers turned around and he pulled ahead. Shortly after that he was dead. The excuse given was ice on the wings, and there was no other investigation. When another pilot heard about the crash, he jumped into his small plane and flew the same route. He had no icing problem and believed there was no valid explanation for that crash. I'm a little tired of fortuitous coincidences. After awhile they get old.
But go ahead and be comfortable with what you want to believe.
kthyodat
Who really gives a !@#$%. Just another story. Like another piece of meat thrown to a pack of hungry wolves. Quit your griping. No one cares how corrupt or incompetent this administration is.
Everyone seems to enjoy gawking and gossiping about the two biggest, stinkiest turds they ever saw floating around in that white American Standard toilet called the Whitehouse, but refuse to flush the damn things down with one big impeachment swooosh.
Demand impeachment or STFU!!!
I agree with whatever4 and cicero confused, among others.
I don't think Lee Hamilton has any worries about his "reputation". I don't think the term is operationally relevant.
Celebrities in every segment of the entertainment industry, from politics to teevee infotainment, get caught doing things which were once considered scandalous. If the misbehavior is serious, or criminal, they may be sued, go to jail, resign from some cushy job. But they'll be back, and they'll always be welcomed on teevee or on the board of some foundation or corporation.
Hamilton is one of those A-list senior statesmen, like George Mitchell or James A. Baker. John Danforth, Clarence Thomas' proud sponsor, is another. There are dozens of these Usual Suspects buzzing around DC like flies on meadow muffins. They appear to be oozing with integrity and gravitas, and their Sterling Reputations are articles of faith obsequiously echoed by the media.
They're like our own little House of Lords emeritus, and exist to serve as titans of probity and impeccability to reassure and soothe the anxious yahoo masses. Oh, some may be more competent, or less corrupt, than others. But no mere Merry Mixup about who said or didn't say what is likely to precipitate the avalanche of disapprobation required to scour their visages off the virtual Mount Rushmore of character upon which they're esconced.
For some reason, I'm reminded of the movie Serpico, when whistleblower Frank Serpico is assured by a police higher-up that the precinct to which he's being transferred is "cleaner than a hound's tooth". Serpico finds out that, in fact, the precinct's payoff operation is so sophisticated that it uses retired cops as bag men. And no doubt they all had Sterling Reputations.
"Why Doesn't the 9/11 Commission Know About Mukasey's 9/11 Story?" This is a funny title for an article. We might well ask, "Why doesn't the 9/11 Commission know about anything?"
For example. The historical record is replete with numerous eyewitness and video and audio accounts of the complete demolition of WTC Building 7 at free-fall speed right within its own footprint on 9/11/2001. This is an obvious planned demolition. "Why doesn't the 9/11 Commission know about that?" we might ask.
Then there's the NORAD audio record clearly indicating that NORAD officers were telling interceptor base commanders to send fighters to Manhattan and intercept the hijacked jetliners. Instead the interceptors ended up over the Atlantic Ocean someplace looking for Soviet bombers, we are told. "Why doesn't the 9/11 Commission know about that?" we might ask.
Then there's the PROMIS software that was installed under Clinton's tenure which put an electronic console with access to the entire complex of US security databases in the hands of a single individual, thus enabling a single human to set up or stand down NORAD, FBI, CIA, ONI and all the other intel agencies. How convenient for some would-be infidel to effect the 9/11 tragedy! "Why doesn't the 9/11 Commission know about that?" we might ask.
We could go on and on. Look, the point is that the 9/11 Commission is no more of an investigative agency than was the Warren Commission. In both cases the government merely dictates "the Truth" of what we are to hold holy and sanctified by faith, and then when we object they simply appoint their buddies to reaffirm the government's "Truth" and to anathematize all unbelievers. The 9/11 Commission, in other words, was about as interested in knowing about anything as the Devil is interested in knowing about real Truth. In this Age of Relativism where "all truth is relative" this should not surprise us.
Rob Argento
www.sillyConValley.net
This administration has without doubt mastered the ability to lie straight faced beyond any thing I could ever possibly imagine.
It reminds me of a movie scene where a husband came home from work early one day and finds his wife in bed with another man. As he confronted them both with questions as to what was going on, the wife and her new lover acted as though he wasn't there - proceeded to get dressed - she went about her normal daily activities - the lover left the house - the husband eventually gets her attention and she says "Hi Honey, I didn't notice you come in, how was your day?" They go on as if nothing has happened.
That is what we do now and it works!
Really, GG should know better by now.
"President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001..."
Gee, wonder if the AG would - gasp - lie about something.
"Former members and staffers of the 9/11 Commission have concluded that the CIA withheld videotapes of harsh interrogation sessions even after specific and "very detailed" requests..." ('Withheld" meaning lies of omission.)
And how important is said alleged single phone call when:
"Hill's report details a July 2001 briefing for senior government officials that said a review of five months of intelligence information indicated "that [Bin Laden] will launch a significant attack against U.S. and/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks... The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests...
Hill's report also said the National Security Agency, which monitors communications worldwide, reported at least 33 communications between May and July 2001 suggesting a "possible, imminent terrorist attack."
"...Washington investigators should consider warnings that at least two friendly Arab intelligence services sent to Washington just weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks."
And on and on and on. Warnings aplenty, all deliberately ignored in the hopes the coming attack would be at least "new Pearl Harbor" sized as publicly hoped for by the PNAC neocrazies.
Or - let's all focus on the one little call our AG mentioned. Either way...
I agree with the comment here that says, it doesn't matter. There are plenty of crimes that should be taking our attention...2 million slaughtered Iraqis since we started bombing in 1991 - an illegal war - an illegal occupation of a sovereign nation - and those 2 million dead bodies.
Scene: cold block room w/single light bulb. CIA "interrogation" room. An Arab being water-boarded. The agent pouring the water says, "OK, Abdul, I'm gonna ask you one more time—Who set up 9/11?" Abdul: "blubDickblubblub blubCheneyblubblub". Second agent with a clip board, to a third agent with the video camera: "Eh, that's what they all say the first few times…"
Little mouse in the corner says: "Must be a conspiracy".
adamsrw April 3rd, 2008 2:14 pm Lead the way, my friend, lead the way!....
...OR STFU
oh, come on.
why should we investigate high crimes and misdemeanors by public officials when baseball players are using steroids?
To Little Brother, 2:30 p.m.:
As an editor (my day job) I have to say that you're one hell of a writer!
Adele
Mukasey lied. Wow. Well whoever believes the official 911 story is really somewhat retarded. The story is not even a good one or even believable. The real problem is how the buildings fell straight down, and why building 7 fell. Gee it got some smoke on it and fell down somehow. They may as well have said that smokey the bear caused all the buildings to fall down, and smokey the bear hijacked a plane and made all the buildings fall down. What a joke. Bush did it, and someone else was complicit. Why isn't Bush in jail right now? Why didn't Americans have a genrl str!ke to get rid of the idiot, and the rest of the corrupt criminals running the banks. I guess Americans are so full of propaganda and so busy watching football that they just don't care.
AdeleTheCzech: Thanks for the compliment. I'm flattered. [blushes] ♥
It seems obvious enough to me. The neocons want their warrantless surveillance back before its too late to work their mischief on Obama or Hillary this fall.
Mukasey just didn't think his rationale would open such a can of worms. Is not thinking common to neocons? How can their mouths go like that when they aren't connected to their brains? Maybe they are like the new models in "I Robot". Connected to some other brain.
Gale,
Well that is possible, but you would think Common Dreams would admit that...It would be a huge story... but maybe well never know with Bush still in.
The reason NSA didn't tell the FBI or CIA about the intercepts is because the whole (botched) surveillance operation against the 9/11 high jackers was being run (illegally, on American soil) by a Pentagon team under Cheney and Rumsfeld, rather than by the national security council team that should have been handling that task, using FISA whenever needed too carry out their legal responsibilities.
9/11 was essentially a sting operation with amateurs working as handlers, a sting operation that eventually blew up in the surveillance team's face due to a leak, or due to double agent treachery all along.
If Mukasey's FISA malarky opens up this can of worms, potentially that's all for the better. Whether Glenn Greenwald's approach connecting the NSA intercept to the 911 Commission proves productive or not is beside the point.
The key question is, since NSA didn't share the intercept with the FBI or CIA, then who did NSA share it with?
Bill from Saginaw
Every once in a while, someone either involved in planning and carrying out the false-flag attacks on 9/11 slip up and say something that lends credence to everything those of us who don't believe the official story have been saying.
The Americans who have had the nerve and intestinal fortitude to even seriously consider other hypthoses than the one pushed by the Bush regime and its Commission have been rewarded with a wealth of evidence so proponderous that we still suffer amazement that Americans were so easily hoodwinked and bamboozled. The official story (and, apparently, the criminal investigation as well) was planted and pushed into American minds before the Towers were even demolished (the story that OBL and radical Muslims did it), and the rest was history.
The Bush regime and the many who've benefitted from 9/11 and its resulting wars are relaxing, thinking they are off the hook, that they have made it through the fire scott-free, that people aren't on to what they did. They are mistaken. The American people should be ashamed of themselves if they let these thugs in the White House and their accomplices get away with killing so many of their fellow Americans.
Perhaps Congress is already too 'boggled down' with the evidence they already have, that they can't handle any more. Sorta like a "analysis paralysis" situation.
Interesting how they have to torture thousands of people to extract info, yet they never bothered to ask Zacarias Mousoui anything. Maybe because as he said he worked with our government recruiting fighters off the data base - called "The Base" - to fight for us in Chechnya.
In Arabic "The Base" is "Al Qaeda"
Your Right! Gen Styk is blocked!
PS- Now it says it's awaiting moderation! Interesting!
Hamilton is chosen for this type of job often. He is a PHONEY plus and is one of the biggest go alongs.
Also what is happening to the University's in the US that they would hire this type of IDIOT.
Like U of Cal hire of Yoo as law? professor.
I no long believe the MSM now I getting to not believe professors.
For any that still buy into the 'official' explanation of the 9/11 attack, you really need to view the video '9/11 Mysteries Part 1: Demolitions'. It's impossible to watch the time frame of the falling buildings and still believe it was caused by aircraft. There is a common thread that runs through the 9/11 event, 'the moneymasters', Naomi Kleins book, 'the shock doctrine' that smells of 'money' and conspiracy. Lets all hope we get can put this together before we no longer have a country to call our own.
And thanks to Glenn for continuing to investigate and publish his findings. America desperately needs to wake up.
It's long past time to get serious. Truth seekers and defenders of the republic are going to pay a high price. ALL of our leadership and press is complicit, if not before the fact, then definitely after the fact. We aren't going to get any results using nice-guy methods. There will be no defense of our Constitutional republic by anyone in the press or within any state or national government. No amount of begging and shit-fitting is going to get this investigated. This isn't even strictly an 'American' phenomena. This is as multinational as it gets. You won't see the British press going after the truth either. Our governments have committed treason against us and all we have left is the formalities. We have pretense at democracy and nothing more. There will be blood and lots of it before the truth comes out. It is on. We either fight this or we are finished.
Everybody here should do whatever they can, to help others learn about the questions raised in the article. The possibility that these questions may lead to something useful for the public, can't be discounted.
Also, I will make a prediction:
Especially if there is anything threatening to the system of national security deceptions we now live under, and especially if these questions somehow get picked-up by the MSM, there will be a subtly intense but dismissively-low-key effort by both govenment and MSM to pan the questions raised -- probably, at first, by an official response that will claim Mukasey "...mis-spoke..." and therefore was "...misunderstood..."
Meanwhile, if the Left publicly jumps to assertive, conspiratorial conclusions which it can't document, this will only be exploited by the invisible goverment bastards who we already know to be, via other far-more veridical evidence and manipulations on a host of other issues, still very cagey and amazingly successful liars.
I hope there's spreadable fire underneath this smoke -- but if there is, you can be sure that the monsters behind the scenes will move an ocean to quench the flame.
Frankly, even if Bush's AG was simply imcompetently babbling to make propaganda points for his Boss wish to generally overthrow constitutional law, it wouldn't suprise me if Mukasey eiher leaves his position soon, or dies from a 'sudden heart attack' at home.
Mr. Williamstreet.
What you just gave as a possible scenario is exactly the same as the circumstances surrounding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Salem, the bomb builder, was an FBI informant - paid over a million dollars and told to use live explosives. He recorded every conversation he had with his 'handlers' in the event they tried to make a patsy out of him.