#Pufferfish Chris Christie's 9/11 lie

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Marcy Wheeler had her ears open during Thursday's Republican debate, and caught Chris Christie in a big lie that probably no one else would have picked up on. It was this, when he was asked whether he really would blame "Senator Paul just for opposing the bulk collection of people’s phone records in the event of a terrorist attack?"

CHRISTIE: Yes, I do. And I’ll tell you why: because I’m the only person on this stage who’s actually filed applications under the Patriot Act, who has gone before the federal—the Foreign Intelligence Service [sic] court, who has prosecuted and investigated and jailed terrorists in this country after September 11th.

I was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on September 10th, 2001, and the world changed enormously the next day, and that happened in my state.

... as Marcy points out, Christie wasn't nominated for the U.S. attorney post until December of that year and started in January 2002. Which his official biography as governor confirms. Given Christie's, or at least his administration's, penchant for political payback, here's the part of this that is more interesting than just his lying about when he started the job.

... if, as he implies, he was involved in the dragnet for the entire span of his tenure ... 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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