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...every inquiry about how the new snooping works-and how well it works-with a firm refusal to get into what it calls "operational details." The President tried to argue the facts a bit today, suggesting almost obliquely that his administration's no-quarter prosecution of the war on terror helped foil a plot on a Los Angeles skyscraper. But he stopped short of saying the breakthrough was based on the NSA snooping. The facts of the case, so far at least, remain unargued in public...
...Navy warships motored into international waters off the coast of Yemen to aid in the search for Al Qaeda escapees, President George W. Bush stood before paintings of Revolutionary War Minutemen Thursday and touted the success of international cooperation in the war on terror. In his speech to the National Guard Association in Washington, Bush revealed new details about a foiled 2002 Al Qaeda plan to use "shoe bombs" to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast - a Los Angeles skyscraper that intelligence analysts later determined was the Library Tower, now named...
...same time the Administration was chest-thumping about this victory in the war on terror, Townsend had to acknowledge that it is grappling with one of the worst examples of non-cooperation. Over the weekend, 13 convicted Al Qaeda members being held in a Yemeni jail escaped, including the reputed mastermind of the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Townsend acknowledged that the jailbreak is "of enormous concern to us, especially given the capabilities and the expertise of the people who were there." All 13 had been housed together, she said, and "we are disappointed that their restrictions...
...article published last week in Haaretz, Israel’s leading newspaper, Bradley Bursten recalls that “In 1977, the Likud of Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir was derided abroad—and by the left at home—as a group led by terror warlords, a movement with roots in armed wings that had engaged in bombings and cold-blooded shootings. It was seen—ingenuously, by the left—as little more than an outgrowth of the Irgun and Lehi, heirs to Deir Yassin, implacable in its opposition to sharing or ceding land...
...wiretap as long as he gets court authorization within 72 hours; that time frame could be lengthened. FISA could also be changed to give intelligence agencies the authority to quickly monitor many phone numbers at once or to allow the President, if he had reason to believe a terror attack was imminent, to order the NSA to sweep American airwaves for a short time without going to the court...