[ovrtaxt]

This policy may already have cost American lives. In at least one instance, U.S. officials labored for nearly ten hours to get legal approval necessary to conduct wiretaps to help them locate three American soldiers kidnapped by al-Qaeda combatants in Iraq. The soldiers were not successfully rescued. “We are extending Fourth Amendment (constitutional) rights to a terrorist foreigner . . . who’s captured a U.S. soldier,” Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell complained to a congressional committee during a legislative battle over this same issue last year. Also in the mix: Trial lawyers are suing telecommunications companies that cooperated with intelligence officials immediately after 9/11, allowing them to “mine” data for patterns of terrorist activity. If the trial lawyers — the biggest donors to Democrats — succeed, they will reap billions of dollars. They also will teach the private sector never again to assist government efforts to identify terrorists. The Senate bill would protect the telecoms from these laws suits.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Nuclear terrorism is a prospect too dreadful to contemplate. So is biological terrorism. One thing that we can 100% rely upon: as soon as an overtly maniac Muslim country gets any significant biological or nuclear capability, one or both of these will happen. Either in Israel or in the US or probably both.

It is risky enough that Pakistan is nuclear: they aren’t quite as whacked as Iran, but pretty close — it wouldn’t take much.

To me, a preemptive strike makes an eminent amount of sense. Select a useful target like Mecca or Tehran and level it, with a warning that more will happen with the very next display of monkeyshines. Then carry out that threat.

It is an ugly thought, the preemptive strike, and it would be politically very difficult to do. Europe, Russia, China — in fact the whole world — would scream blue murder.

What are the alternatives, tho’? Without a preemptive strike, a nuclear/biological terrorist attack is one day certain to happen.

[reagan_fanatic]

Nancy Pelosi - carrying on the Clinton legacy.