Many of us who were in government in the months just after 9/11 are convinced that, had we had the authority then to do what NSA was later authorized to do, we would have been able to identify and apprehend some al-Qaida operatives in the U.S. In fact, before 9/11, we were hot on the tail of a Middle Eastern telephone number thought to have been associated with al-Qaida. But we had no authority to act.
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