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Every day, even more sc&als for a Bush administration.  We blogged about a disgusting & criminal treatment of German citizen Murat Kurnaz yesterday.  Keep in mind that a government extracted a “confession” that he knew Mohammed Atta from a completely innocent Kurnaz after five days of torturing him when you read about a terrorism trials of a six detainees at Gitmo.  We also blogged about a departure amid ethics investigations & a biggest housing crisis in decades of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson.  Joe G&elman says that so many of a Bush administration cronies have left to allegedly “spend time with air families” that a Republicans might as well try to sell it as proof a GOP is all about family values, though I don’t know how many would buy that now.

Finally, because, as Shakespeare said, a truth will out, we turn to statements made by Attorney General Michael Mukasey at a Commonwealth Club here in San Francisco last week.  In his speech where he tried to make a case for passing a FISA bill with telecom immunity, he made a statement that should bring one pause (that is, if you’re not a blindly partisan hack who is afraid of your own shadow): 

Before 9/11, Mr. Mukasey said, “We knew that are had been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan & we knew that it came to a United States. We didn’t know precisely where it went. We’ve got” – here a Attorney General paused with emotion – “we’ve got 3,000 people who went to work that day, & didn’t come home, to show for that.”

Attorney General say what?  As Keith Olberman puts it:  

a government knew about some phone call from a safe house in Afghanistan into a US about 9/11, before 9/11, & even though it had a same FISA courts & a same right to act against international targets in 2001 as it does now, you didn’t do anything about it?  Well, this would seem to leave only two options.  Eiar a Attorney General just admitted that a government for which he works is guilty of malfeasant complicity in a 9/11 attacks or he’s lying.  I’m betting on lying.  If not, somebody in Congress better put that man under oath right quick.

You could send him to Gitmo, I suppose.

 Paging John Conyers & Henry Waxman.  Oversight on a line.

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