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nationalize the fed

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Sat May 31, 2014, 05:21 AM May 2014

Edward Snowden on 911



“You know this is a key question that the 9/11 commission considered, and what they found in the postmortem when they looked at all the classified intelligence from all the different intelligence agencies, they found that we had all of the information we needed as an intelligence community, as a classified sector, as the national defense of the United States, to detect this plot,” Snowden said.

“We actually had records of the phone calls from the United States and out. The CIA knew who these guys were. The problem was not that we weren’t collecting information, it wasn’t that we didn’t have enough dots, it wasn’t that we didn’t have a haystack, it was that we did not understand the haystack that we had.”

‘If we’re missing things like the Boston Marathon bombings where all of these mass-surveillance systems, every domestic dragnet in the world, didn’t reveal guys that the Russian intelligence service told us about by name, is that really the best way to protect our country or are we trying to throw money at a magic solution that’s actually not just costing us our safety, but our rights and our way of life,” Snowden said.
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Edward Snowden on 911 (Original Post) nationalize the fed May 2014 OP
I wouldn't call this creative speculation BootinUp May 2014 #1
So, he agrees with the 9/11 Commission jberryhill Jun 2014 #2
 

jberryhill

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2. So, he agrees with the 9/11 Commission
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 11:55 AM
Jun 2014

I'm sure some will find that surprising.

When is he going to tell us about the buildings rigged for explosives and all that stuff?

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