Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Fort Dix plot

Good thing we had warrantless wiretapping and military prisons to stop this.

Sorry, what?

First, it’s worth noting that today’s success was due to intelligence gathering and law-enforcement efforts — the very techniques the Bush White House has consistently ridiculed as ineffective in counterterrorism. For that matter, as Steve M. noted, "[A]pparently no warrantless wiretapping led to these arrests, no torture of suspects in overseas prisons, nothing liberals have objected to in the Patriot Act. Remember that when you’re told that these arrests prove that we can’t trust liberals and Democrats."

6 comments:

Gonzo said...

That's utterly fucking ridiculous. If you rob someone with a knife, does that invalidate gun control policy?

I've said it before: You people have lost the ability to think critically.

SeattleSusieQ said...

So much for "we're fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here".

Gonzo said...

Apparently, these were former Yugoslavians brought here in 1999 for humanitarian reasons. So we imported our own terrorists. Yay, Bill!

Oh, and Garrett, how do you snide idiots *know* exactly what techniques were used to apprehend these guys?

There are things I could tell you....but I can't here.

Gonzo said...

Furthermore, your link is to some moron blogger which in turn links to CNN. I have the PDF of the criminal complaint which contradicts what your idiot blogger posted.

Of course, the official complaint can't be right, can it?

Garrett said...

Heh. Now if you had actually _read_ the PDF, instead of taking the word of whatever right-wing site linked to it, you would have spotted it before you embarrassed yourself.

Weren't you just saying the other day that _we_ just regurgitated what we saw on other blogs?

Gonzo said...

I read no right wing blog on this. None. But I know where you got your post :-)