Domestic surveillance? Pre-9/11?

Eh? What's that? The Bush administration was spying on Americans seven months beFORE 9/11? To what end, I wonder? Oh, that's classified? Oh. Hey, good job using that spying on Americans to thwart that nasty attack on 9/11. What's that? I can't hear you...

NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted Qwest CEO Claims
By Ryan Singel
October 11, 2007

Did the NSA's massive call records database program pre-date the terrorist attacks of 9/11?

That startling allegation is in court documents released this week which show that former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio -- the head of the only company known to have turned down the NSA's requests for Americans' phone records -- tried, unsuccessfully, to argue just that in his defense against insider trading charges.

Nacchio was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2007 after being found guilty of illegally selling shares based on insider information that the company's fortunes were declining....

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/nsa-asked-for-p.html