> Lately, I've come to realize that the September 11 attacks actually destroyed America. I'm not so sure about that. As I learned in another thread, for exampl

> Lately, I've come to realize that the September 11 attacks actually destroyed America. I'm not so sure about that. As I learned in another thread, for example, that NSA had been requesting phone records of __BEFORE__ Sept. 11: Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, convicted of insider trading in April 2007, alleged in appeal documents that the NSA requested that Qwest participate in its wiretapping program __more than six months before September 11, 2001__. Nacchio recalls the meeting as occurring on February 27, 2001. Nacchio further claims that the NSA cancelled a lucrative contract with Qwest as a result of Qwest's refusal to participate in the wiretapping program See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_for_NSA_spying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_for_NSA_spying for more.