And it's only a matter of time before the huge liberal outcry against how the latest terrorist suspects are being treated in captivity. Or has it started already? I went to the beach yesterday and didn't read the news yet.
Liberals and rednecks don't often mix.
To wit: those 2 men caught in Marietta, Ohio's vicinity with "thousands of dollars in cash, several disposable cell phones and instructions of how to obtain private flight information. Police also found a list of flight passengers in the car.
"It also had information about airport checkpoints, and what would be accomplished there, so this is a little bit unusual," Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks says.
Sheriff Mincks also says the disposable cell phones are especially important, because it appears their final destination was supposed to be overseas.
"They are digital and can be used to detonate car bombs."
Via Drudgereport.com
Apparently they also had location maps of every Wal-Mart from Ohio to North Carolina, too, per an earlier report also on Drudge.
Thank God for rednecks. Seriously. Thank you, Jesus.
Good stuff - I was trying to explain to some lefties yesterday how the democrat ledership, such as it is, seemed unhappy that we stopped this one.
Outstanding!
BTTT
Here's the meat of the editorial:
Democrats and their media allies screamed bloody murder last year when it was leaked that the government was monitoring some communications outside the context of a law known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. FISA wasn't designed for, nor does it forbid, the timely exploitation of what are often anonymous phone numbers, and the calls monitored had at least one overseas connection. But Mr. Reid labelled such surveillance "illegal" and an "NSA domestic spying program." Other Democrats are still saying they will censure, or even impeach, Mr. Bush over the FISA program if they win control of Congress.
This year the attempt to paint Bush Administration policies as a clear and present danger to civil liberties continued when USA Today hyped a story on how some U.S. phone companies were keeping call logs. The obvious reason for such logs is that the government might need them to trace the communications of a captured terror suspect. And then there was the recent brouhaha when the New York Times decided news of a secret, successful and entirely legal program to monitor bank transfers between bad guys was somehow in the "public interest" to expose.
For that matter, we don't recall most advocates of a narrowly "focused" war on terror having many kind words for the Patriot Act, which broke down what in the 1990s was a crippling "wall" of separation between our own intelligence and law-enforcement agencies. Senator Reid was "focused" enough on this issue to brag, prematurely as it turned out, that he had "killed" its reauthorization.
And what about interrogating terror suspects when we capture them? It is elite conventional wisdom these days that techniques no worse than psychological pressure and stress positions constitute "torture." There is also continued angst about the detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, even as Senators and self-styled civil libertarians fight Bush Administration attempts to process them through military tribunals that won't compromise sources and methods.
In short, Democrats who claim to want "focus" on the war on terror have wanted it fought without the intelligence, interrogation and detention tools necessary to win it. And if they cite "cooperation" with our allies as some kind of magical answer, they should be reminded that the British and other European legal systems generally permit far more intrusive surveillance and detention policies than the Bush Administration has ever contemplated.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
It seems to me we do. Another report said that U.S. intelligence picked up chatter between two ringleaders (and brothers) and alerted British authorities. Plus large amounts of money had been wired to them. BTW, intercepting terrorist phone calls and monitoring their money transfers are the very same tools Democrats have not wanted to use against the Islamofacists.
Outstanding op-ed. Bookmarked...
Some sayings that drive liberals crazy these days:
In times of war, Truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by
a Bodyguard of Lies.
...approximately what Churchill said concerning military secrets
In times of war, the law is silent.
...the Roman sentiment that during time of national crisis, some legal
niceties don't get exercised as they do in peacetime
Needs Repeating.
Great Piece! pong
Lefties love moving the goalposts about what will make them happy. The fact that we caught terrorists planning something is bad because we didn't catch them earlier.