Thomas Drake
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out of Congress.
It was one of the subcommittees for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which turned into the joint inquiry, a much larger investigation.
Again, this is prior to the 9-11 Commission, which, again, President Bush and Vice President Cheney severely objected to.
They really did not want any kind of commission looking into why we had failed to protect
the nation, which was, that's the job, right?
I mean, that's one of the two primary responsibilities of government.
If you go back to the preamble, and I keep referencing the constitution, that's the thing that's supposed to make us, even though it has its own faults and its own foibles and a lot of things where, you know,
Cans were kicked down the road in terms of sort of the sins of the nation, original sins.
It is the law of the land, and it was an attempt to govern differently based on sort of the base human condition, as I call it.
and remember, the first constitution didn't even have any Bill of Rights or an amendment.
That came a couple of years later, because, you know, how we as a people, we the people, right?
So in the preamble, it talks about, you know, providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare.
Well, yeah, the general welfare and the common defense are the two primary responsibilities.
So the failure to provide for the common defense...
led to these investigations.
So yes, I was subpoenaed, and I am providing material evidence regarding what NSA knew, should have known, could have known.
And also, and this is the thing that was even worse, sort of like, again, throwback to what happened during the Nixon administration, the coverup became worse than the crime, and I put that crime in quotes,
There was a massive cover-up about what NSA actually knew or should have known regarding 9-11, especially NSA.
It was a systemic failure.
That's clear, and that's a whole story in itself that unfolded over a number of years.
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