Attorney General Michael Mukasey – Tears for Fears!

Is there nothing the Bush administration will not do to get its own way? They now have Attorney General Michael Mukasey putting on the tears to gain public sympathy for some new legislation they want to put through!

Last month the House amended the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expand the government´s ability to monitor US citizen´s private communications and if it becomes law, it will be another nail in the coffin of privacy for US citizens.

This is an extract from an article called "Mukasey asked to explain terror call remarks". Published by the San Francisco Chronicle:

Two weeks after Attorney General Michael Mukasey tearfully told a San Francisco audience the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could have been prevented if the government had been able to wiretap a phone call from Afghanistan, the Justice Department is still trying to explain what he meant, and a congressional leader is demanding answers.

Among the questions posed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., to Mukasey is whether any such phone call actually occurred and, if so, why the government wasn't able to use its legal and technological powers to monitor it.

The attorney general, speaking to the Commonwealth Club on March 27, defended President Bush's program of wiretapping calls between Americans and suspected foreign terrorists without court authorization and said no warrant should be needed to eavesdrop on a phone call from Iraq to the United States.

Before Sept. 11, 2001, Mukasey said, "we knew that there had been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan, and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went."

He paused, seemed to stifle tears, then continued, "You've got 3,000 people who went to work that day, and didn't come home, to show for that."

As usual, those supporting or connected to the Bush administration, always seem to have detailed information about what "terrorists" are supposedly doing, yet are unable to provide actual proof. There is always an "unknown" element included in these statements.

Hard to believe that the government are able to "catch" former New York governor Eliot Spitzer spending time with prostitutes (with the help of the Patriot Act, even though these girls did not call him from Afghanistan or Iraq), yet can not trace a simple phone call to the United States!

If the American people fall for these "fairytales" they deserve to have their phones tapped. The only calls that need to be monitored are the ones between Bush, Cheney and friends, and then maybe 3,000 people would have come home!

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