01.24.06
circular reasoning
how’s this for "Through the Looking Glass"?: now the story is that, if the pResident had the power to illegally wiretap U.S. citizens before the tragic events of the fall of 2001, he might have prevented it…
waitaminit? didn’t Condoleeza Rice state, famously, that "noone could have imagined" the event’s of 9/11:
"I don’t think anybody could have predicted1 that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon — that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." - Condoleeza Rice, 16 May 2002 press conference
this, despite a Presidential Daily Briefing which stated:
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [text redacted ] service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of Federal buildings in New York. - Presidential Daily Briefing, August 6th, 2001
the question remaining is this: if all this was not enough to have foreseen "9/11", then what good would encroaching upon our civil liberties do?
keep us safe, i suppose — like Rigoberto Alpizar….
- Really? Then why was NORAD conducting training exercises on September 11th, 2001 that simulated hijacking airplanes and, in some cases, flying them into buildings? [back]