A silent bomb.

While Aussie scribes breathlessly analyze whether PM Kevin Rudd gave The Miserable Failure a 'deputy sheriff' salute at NATO talks in Romania, a remarkable story goes unreported in the US. One that involves Sept 11, a previously unreported warning about the attack, and a US Attorney General who either doesn't understand the laws he's empowered to enforce or is making sh*t up about the most investigated event of the 21st century. Either way, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey -- successor to disgraced Bush lackey Alberto Gonzalez -- has spilled a grain silo of beans that screams for scrutiny.

Where's the tsunami of media coverage?

Keith Olbermann explained the blood-boiling details on Countdown (above) and Glenn Greenwald has been doing his usual outstanding job of banging the drum since Mukasey's speech in San Francisco last Thursday. There's more here, here and here. [Note: None of these sources are the MSM.]

Here's how the SF Chronicle reported his remarks:

Before the 2001 terrorist attacks, he (Mukasey) said, "we knew that there had been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went. You've got 3,000 people who went to work that day, and didn't come home, to show for that."

What????????? Huh????????????? Is the Attorney General of the United States claiming the US had a chance to learn about the attacks beforehand but didn't act due to a faulty understanding of FISA law?

The media's role in disappearing this startling pronouncement best described by Dan Gillmor of the Center for Citizen Media:

A truly extraordinary example of journalistic malfeasance is playing out right now. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told a San Francisco audience last week that the Bush administration was aware in the days before the 9/11 attacks that an Al Qaeda official was making calls from a 'safe house in Afghanistan' to U.S. but that our government failed to act on that. Mukasey said the U.S. lacked the legal authority, a flat falsehood as legal commentators have pointed out.

It's so easy and lazy and stupid and un-American to glaze one's eyes at the thought of another Bush administration scandal. So much cooler to pass it all off as partisan witchhuntery. Not this. Not when it involves 9/11 and a top Bush official exploiting the lives lost on that day and a nonplussed media that can't be bothered to do its goddamned job.