Mukasey: Tapping One Phone Call Would Have Stopped 9/11

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told a reporter yesterday that if a phone call from a known Al Qaeda safe house in Afghanistan to the U.S. had been tapped by the U.S. government, then 9/11 wouldn't have happened. Mukasey was saying this to rally support for passing the new FISA bill, which will take away more rights from U.S. citizens, allowing the government to spy on them through their telephone service providers.

However, as Keith Olbermann points out in the video below, the laws that were on the books before 9/11 occurred already allowed for tapping phone calls from known terrorists. And since this wasn't done, (and the phone call was never revealed to the 9/11 Commission) either Mukasey's revealing of the phone call now means George W. Bush is even more incompetent than we thought (and once again is caught not doing what is necessary to protect this nation), or Mukasey is flat out lying. Neither of which are traits one would embrace in their government leaders.