So by using this program and other spying techniques, the gov't has prevented attacks in this country (i.e. Brooklyn Bridge plot as just one example) and if this program and others like it were in place could have possibly prevented 9/11 (i.e. Zacarias Moussaoui's computer). You are against the prevention of these attacks because someone who wanted to blow up Americans' civil liberties was violated? I don't quite understand the priorities here. And it's not one or the other. You don't have security or civil liberites. But if you're not talking to al-Qaeda, you don't have your phone's systematically wiretapped. Denying that the problem of terrorism exists and the potential scope of the problem is many's primary problem. Seems to me people who believe this were the first ones to blame Bush for 9/11 and will be the first ones who blame him for a potential future attack. Don't you understand that he's trying (as any other president would hopefully be trying to do) to prevent another attack. And by using this and other programs (like the Patriot Act, which is being conveniently blocked by the Democrats), the gov't has done a pretty darn good job. Remember they have to be right 100% of the time. A pretty high standard. Blocking the Patriot Act, revealing secret prisons, limiting hardcore interrogation techniques, leaking this secret program, and other statements by the Democrats are severely undermining our gov'ts ability to fight terrorism. But, according to some on these boards (not all of you), why fight something that doesn't exist.
"Pithy attack" ... oh phuleeze... quit being so melodramatic. As for what's been admitted and conceded, I quote: "Beware of responding formulaically."
