Cheney Cites Justifications For Domestic Eavesdropping

Cheney Cites Justifications For Domestic Eavesdropping

Vice President Cheney said yesterday that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks might have been prevented if the Bush administration had had the power to secretly monitor conversations involving two of the hijackers without court orders.

As part of an effort to sell Americans on the administration's recently disclosed program to eavesdrop on telephone and e-mail communications between the United States and people overseas without a warrant, Cheney told a small group of conservatives at the Heritage Foundation that instead of being able to "pick up" on the terrorist plot "we didn't know they were here plotting until it was too late

BU*SH*IT. Those planes that took down the twin towers could have been averted a minimum of 30 minutes before they struck. It appears more and more that it was staged.