[Infowarrior] - Former NSA Lawer Stewart Baker: FISA Minimization Policies Are To Blame For 9/11 Attacks

[Richard Forno]

Former NSA Lawer Stewart Baker: FISA Minimization Policies Are To Blame For 9/11 Attacks

from the next-up:-opinion-blogs-to-blame-for-9/11-attacks! dept

Stewart Baker, former DHS official and NSA counsel, has plenty of blame to spread around for the 9/11 attacks. None of it seems to lay at the feet of the terrorists who performed the attacks, however. He's entertained various theories over the past few months as he's defended the actions of the NSA, TSA and various other government agencies. 

Most egregiously, Baker claimed civil liberties activists were to blame for the 9/11 attacks because their concern over warrantless wiretap programs somehow made the FISA court so defensive it wouldn't let the FBI pursue terrorists it knew were currently in the country. 

Baker expounds on this further in his post criticizing the NSA-targeting Leahy-Sensenbrenner bill, making the argument that FISA minimization policies prevent

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131121/10485625324/former-nsa-lawer-stewart-baker-fisa-minimization-policies-are-to-blame-911-attacks.shtml

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