re: #66 FemNaziBitch

Help me out here. My feeble addled brain seems to remember THAT -after 9/11 Tom Clancy and others were saying that the Clinton Administration should have not tried to take the cloak and dagger out of the CIA.

The idea was the administration (I actually remember this from reading the 9/11 Report) decided that we just didn’t act that way. Trying to keep thing above board and transparent.

So, now people are truly and actually shocked that NSA does creepy stuff?

Am I getting this correctly?

Kind of. Clinton did roll back some of the abilities of different agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA, etc) to share information with each other. In regards to the the 9-11 plot a few of the hijackers were in contact with a known al Qaeda controller in Yemen. Under the rules at the time we missed the clues because the hijackers were calling from the us, which meant their calls were protected and even if the CIA or NSA did know about the calls they couldn’t share that info with the FBI or domestic agencies. Those rules have since been changed to allow the sharing of intel between agencies.