Seriously. Cheney said this?

[Brundle_Fly]

here is what he said....

"If we had been able to do that before 9/11, we might have been able to pick up on two of the hijackers who were in San Diego in touch overseas with al Qaeda," Cheney said.

The question is, if he wasnt allowed to do it, how does he know about it? the hijackers are dead, did someone in cuba or some other assorted camp tell him, "oh and while you are torturing me, I also was talking to two of our terrorists who were sunning themselves in San Diego"

Did he just implicate himself with knowledge he shouldnt have had? or am I tinfoil?

[wryter2000]

1. I think it's just nonsense

Just his attempt to convince us that if he can't do exactly what he wants WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

[politicaholic]

2. I think the tinfoil hats have come off for this one...

its a boon for paranoid schizophrenics everywhere.

[rzemanfl]

3. Because you were too stupid to use the FBI informant they

lived with Dickie, you dumbfuck.

[Qanisqineq]

4. I didn't get that either

I thought maybe I missed a big part of the story or something. If they had been able to do what? Wiretap without a court order? The way I understand it, they could and go to a judge within 72 hours afterwards and all of it highly secret. But how did he know about it if they weren't... I don't know, I am confused.

[Brundle_Fly]

6. close...

they could wiretap for up to 72 hours BEFORE they got a court order...

and as FISA was just rubber stamping them.... there was NO stopping them.

[Qanisqineq]

8. ok

so he was talking about wiretapping. Yeah, I think I was trying to say wiretap for 72 hours before getting a court order but I don't know what I said. I am just too confused! So if FISA was rubber stamping them, what the heck is Dick talking about?

[arcane1]

5. it's the legally-required reference to 9/11

[tom swift]

7. Cheney

He couldn't come right out and say that it was Clinton's fault but according to freeper deconstruction code,that's what he meant.

[stillcool]

9. he's so full of it...

SEE NO EVIL: WHAT BUSH DIDN'T (WANT TO) KNOW ABOUT 9/11
TomPaine.com
Saturday Mar 1, 2003
TomPaine.com interviews Greg Palast
FBI Document 199I

What we did discover was serious enough. To begin with, from less-than-happy FBI agents we obtained an interesting document, some 30 pages long, marked "SECRET." I've reproduced a couple of pages here (figure 2.1). Note the designation "199I" -- that's FBI-speak for "national security matter." According to insiders, FBI agents had wanted to check into two members of the bin Laden family, Abdullah and Omar, but were told to stay away by superiors -- until September 13, 2001. By then, Abdullah and Omar were long gone from the United States.

Why no investigation of the brothers bin Laden? The Bush administration's line is the Binladdins (a more common spelling of the Arabic name) are good folk. Osama's the Black Sheep, supposedly cut off from his Saudi kin. But the official line notwithstanding, some FBI agents believed the family had some gray sheep worth questioning -- especially these two working with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), which the file labels "a suspected terrorist organization." ....

No matter how vile WAMY's indoctrination chats, they are none of the FBI's business. Recruitment for terror, however, is. Before 9/11, the governments of India and the Philippines tied WAMY to groups staging murderous attacks on civilians. Following our broadcast on BBC, the Dutch secret service stated that WAMY, "support(ed) violent activity." In 2002, The Wall Street Journal's Glenn Simpson made public a report by Bosnia's government that a charity with Abdullah bin Laden on its board had channeled money to Chechen guerrillas. Two of the 9/11 hijackers used an address on the same street as WAMY's office in Falls Church, Virginia.
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=195&row=1