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...famous examples—those of the “Lackawanna Six” and the “Portland Seven”—provide tangible evidence of the Patriot Act’s effectiveness. The act enabled the nation’s intelligence and criminal investigation communities to share information with each other for the first time; this allowed the FBI to obtain evidence that directly led to the apprehension of six members of a terror cell in Lackawanna, NY and seven members of another cell in Portland, Ore. Nearly a decade’s worth...
...University of Scranton during the event. The bureau has just launched an official Office tour, featuring Poor Richard's Pub and other locations mentioned in the show. "It is still amazing to me how much press this has generated for us," says Tracy Barone, executive director of the Lackawanna County Convention and Visitors Bureau. "If it's been mentioned on The Office, people want to come and see it." It doesn't seem to matter to Barone or anyone else in Scranton that the town's image in the show is comically dismal. "We couldn't be happier they picked...
Terrorism trials in civilian courts have been a mixed bag--the prosecution of the Lackawanna and Portland cells ran smoothly, while al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui took a federal court on a wild grandstanding ride worthy of Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein. The judges who hear the appeals may affirm that civilian courts are the wrong venue for Gitmo detainees, but the debate is too important--and too complex--to cut the judiciary...
...National Security Agency program that includes interception of domestic phone calls and e-mail messages without warrants if one of the parties has known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations. Hayden said at the National Press Club in January: "It is not a driftnet over Dearborn or Lackawanna or Freemont grabbing conversations that we then sort out by these alleged keyword searches or data-mining tools or other devices that so-called experts keep talking about. This is targeted and focused...
...Qaeda operatives overseas are making to the United States. And since legislation passed after 9/11 gives him that authority as part of the war on terror, they argue, the President does not need to go to Congress for any new authority. "[This] is not a driftnet over Dearborn or Lackawanna or Freemont grabbing conversations" in a data mining exercise, says General Michael Hayden, the deputy director of national intelligence and former NSA chief. "This is targeted and focused. This is not about intercepting conversations between people in the United States. This is hot pursuit of communications entering or leaving America...