From: "Robert G Lewis" 

"Mark"  wrote in message
news:43b35f97$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> But why do you "reckon those rules are out the window now,"
has it been
> set in stone that Bush (and Carter and Reagan and Clinton in various
> iterations) having the NSA listen to terrorist collaborators here in the
> US talking with terrorists in foreign countries violated any law? I don't
> think it has, nor do I think it will.
>
> You do remember that the terrorists that killed a lot of people in NYC,
> DC, and in the countryside of PA, were communicating with their fellow
> whack jobs in Afghanistan and other countries from our mainland, don't
> you? Don't you further think if we'd been monitoring those calls (or
> hadn't had "the wall") that perhaps a lot of Americans would still be
> alive today? 
>


I doubt that  it would have had ANY significant effect on 9/11. We still
don't have the translation capabilities we need imo. Also the current
widespread monitoring will be generating a tremendous amount of noise which
will require investigation and resources before any useful intelligence can
be developed.

Bob Lewis

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