The Burial of the 9/11 Story that Got Away

AHSOO, NSA had been listening to Al Qaeda, before 9/11, without all of the exraordinary surviellance BushCo claims it now needs. They knew something was coming. So did high White Officials.

Alot of good it did.

Of course, had the 9/11 hijackers been stopped, there would have been no reason to declare war on the entire Middle East.

AlterNet: The Burial of the 9/11 Story that Got Away:

"Last week, William Scott Malone and I broke the story of how a still anonymous, senior White House official leaked top-secret NSA intelligence in 2001 to then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller. The intelligence indicated that Al Qaeda was planning a major attack on the United States. But the 'The 9/11 Story That Got Away' never made it into the paper.

It never made it to the attention of top Times executive Bill Keller either. Keller, now executive editor of the paper, was managing editor in July 2001. But he was kept in the dark when Miller's 'impeccable' source first revealed details of highly classified signals intelligence (SIGINT) concerning an impending Al Qaeda attack, perhaps to be visited on the continental United States. The NSA had been listening in on a conversation between two members of Osama bin Laden's terror network. One was overheard saying to the other, 'Don't worry, we're planning something so big now that the U.S. will have to respond.'

Asked to comment on our revelation, Times man Keller emailed a statement that said in part, 'I heard nothing about this from Judy or Steve (Stephen Engelberg, Miller's editor) at the time.'"