Today's Required Reading - Our Right to Security

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...in the Opinion Journal today - Our Right to Security by Debra Burlingame.

...NBC News aired an "exclusive" story in 2004 that dramatically recounted how al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, the San Diego terrorists who would later hijack American Airlines flight 77 and fly it into the Pentagon, received more than a dozen calls from an al Qaeda "switchboard" inside Yemen where al-Mihdhar's brother-in-law lived. The house received calls from Osama Bin Laden and relayed them to operatives around the world. Senior correspondent Lisa Myers told the shocking story of how, "The NSA had the actual phone number in the United States that the switchboard was calling, but didn't deploy that equipment, fearing it would be accused of domestic spying."...

Debra Burlingame's brother was the American Airlines pilot of Flight 77.  Be sure to read the whole piece and send it to your friends and family.

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Today's Required Reading - Our Right to Security

...in the Opinion Journal today - Our Right to Security by Debra Burlingame.

...NBC News aired an "exclusive" story in 2004 that dramatically recounted how al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, the San Diego terrorists who would later hijack American Airlines flight 77 and fly it into the Pentagon, received more than a dozen calls from an al Qaeda "switchboard" inside Yemen where al-Mihdhar's brother-in-law lived. The house received calls from Osama Bin Laden and relayed them to operatives around the world. Senior correspondent Lisa Myers told the shocking story of how, "The NSA had the actual phone number in the United States that the switchboard was calling, but didn't deploy that equipment, fearing it would be accused of domestic spying."...

Debra Burlingame's brother was the American Airlines pilot of Flight 77.  Be sure to read the whole piece and send it to your friends and family.

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