Lawyers: Spy Agency Sought US Call Records 7 Months Before 9/11

Why isn't Cabal News having a field day with this? (Oh, nevermind, stupid question)

The only place I've seen this reported was on Olberman/Countdown, MSNBC.

Actually, this isn't the first time this has been reported. Jason Leopold reported, last winter, that NSA was looking at ways to spy on domestic calls as early as February, 2001, when Dick Cheney began making visits to the NSA.

Now everyone, who is anyone, who has written an insider book about this administration has said , in no-uncertain terms, that terrorism was almost non-existent on the Bush list of prioroties. John Ashcroft is quoted as having told people on his staff that he did not want to hear about Al Qaeda.

So, what the hell was Cheney doing over at the NSA, 6 months before 9/11?

Lawyers: Spy Agency Sought US Call Records 7 Months Before 9/11:

"The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept? 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.

The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation's largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers.

The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money damages.

'The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11,' plaintiff's lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone interview. 'This undermines that assertion.'

The lawsuit is related to an alleged NSA program to record and store data on calls placed by subscribers. More than 30 suits have been filed over claims that the carriers, the three biggest U.S. telephone companies, violated the privacy rights of their customers by cooperating with the NSA in an effort to track alleged terrorists."