We have, from Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online:
"Had [President Bush's Warrantless Surveillance Program]" been in place before the [9/11] attacks, hijackers Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi almost certainly would have been identified and located."
"Another Friday night, another dump by the Obama administration of a report underscoring the vital importance of President Bush's post-9/11 national security tactics.
The above quote about Midhar and Hazmi and is from Gen. Michael Hayden, the former CIA director who was director of the NSA when that agency ran Bush's "Terrorist Surveillance Program." It is a bombshell mentioned in passing on page 31 of the 38-page report filed by five executive-branch inspectors general (from DOJ, DOD, CIA, NSA, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) pursuant to Congress's 2008 overhaul of FISA (the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act)."
This is all about the wiretapping program I wrote extensively about in the printed News and Views columns on anti-terrorist programs. Specifically, the program that was so utterly and maliciously mischaracterized by liberals as "domestic wiretapping" when it was actually interceptions of cross-border communication which has never been subject to the 4th amendment anyway.
Bush was right on this, just like so many other maligned (by the left) war on terror tactics.
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