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"I testified in open session to the House Intel Committee in April of the year 2000 [DURING THE CLINTONISTA ADMINISTRATION]. At the time, I created some looks of disbelief when I said that if Osama bin Laden crossed the bridge from Niagara Falls, Ontario to Niagara Falls, New York, there were provisions of U.S. law that would kick in, offer him protections and affect how NSA could now cover him. At the time, I was just using this as some of sort of stark hypothetical; 17 months later, this is about life and death."

This is one of the most important statements in the entire talk: here we have that Gen. Hayden, 17 months before 9/11, told the weasels of Congress in OPEN SESSION (and thereby the MSM and the Clintonistas, as well, if any were paying attention) that the NSA was severely handicapped in its ability to track Osama Bin Laden (or by implication any of this followers) and could track virtually nothing once they entered the USA. If anyone had drawn the appropriate implications and taken the appropriate steps, as Gen. Hayden indicates elsewhere in the talk, the 9/11 plotters would have been thwarted. Sooooo, the clear implication of Gen. Hayden's remarks is that everyone in the Clinton administration, Congress, and the MSM was put on notice by him 17 MONTHS before 9/11 of a serious type of vulnerability to terrorist infiltration of the USA, and nothing was done..... smoke that in your pipe, Richard Clarke, Algore, and other mindless critics!!

You're right.

And the other most important thing he said is that if the monitoring had been going on before 9/11, they would have probably nabbed the perps.

Again, it's not the conversations that matter. It's locating the people.

Same with Osama. They want to locate him. It might be nice to know what he's talking about on the phone. But that's way down on the list.

"We believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will more clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation" Jamie Gorelick, Deputy Attorney General under President William Jefferson Clinton (later member of 9/11 Commission), March 4, 1995