Chris Christie’s Revealing, Easy to Spot Lie About His 9/11 Credentials

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...But, Christie's personal experience-based defense of the NSA's collections program contains an easily disprovable lie, as Emptywheel points out:

    Never mind that most US Attorneys don't, themselves, go before the FISC to present cases (usually it is people from the National Security Division, though it was OIPR when Christie was US Attorney), never mind that the name of the court is the "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

    The real doozie here is Chris Christie's claim that he "was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on September 10th, 2001."

    On December 7, 2001 — three months after the attacks — President Bush released this notice of nomination.

Emptywheel also reads an implication of illegal wiretapping in Christie's rhetorical gusto:

    Christie implies he was involved in the dragnet in question. He was US Attorney from January 2002 to December 2008 — so he in fact would have been in office during the two years when the phone dragnet worked through the Servic–um, Surveillance court, and four years of the Internet dragnet. But if, as he implies, he was involved in the dragnet for the entire span of his tenure — and remember, there were huge cases run out of Trenton right out of 9/11 — then he was also using the fruits of illegal wiretapping to do his job. Not Servic — um, Surveillance court authorized dragnets and wiretaps, but also illegal wiretaps....

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