Yep Dems are Correct, We Don't Need No Stinkin' Domestic Monitoring

Tip Followed '05 Attacks on London Transit

By Craig Whitlock and Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, August 11, 2006; Page A01

It all began with a tip: In the aftermath of the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings on London's transit system, British authorities received a call from a worried member of the Muslim community, reporting general suspicions about an acquaintance.

From that vague but vital piece of information, according to a senior European intelligence official, British authorities opened the investigation into what they said turned out to be a well-coordinated and long-planned plot to bomb multiple transatlantic flights heading toward the United States -- an assault designed to rival the scope and lethality of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings.

By late 2005, the probe had expanded to involve several hundred investigators on three continents. They kept dozens of suspects under close surveillance for months, even as some of the plotters traveled between Britain and Pakistan to raise money, find recruits and refine their scheme, according to interviews with U.S. and European counterterrorism officials.

Precise details of the plot -- how many planes, their destinations and the date -- remain unknown. The shape of the operation changed regularly as the would-be bombers considered which transatlantic flights to target and prepared for a practice run, which was expected to take place in the next few days, U.S. law enforcement officials said.

Well once again we are given witness to how myopic, politically motivated, and dangerous the Democrats in Congress are. In their heedless pursuit of regaining power our "Loyal" Opposition has been fighting tooth and nail to stop the NSA from doing precisely the sort of counterterrorism monitoring that helped Scotland Yard stop this latest attempt by members of the Global Islamic Jihad to murder thousands of tourists in the skies over the US.

By all means let's do what the Fat "Lady Killer" from Massachusetts, the Leaker from Vermont, and the Ketchup Baron also from Mass. want us to do. Let's unilaterally disarm ourselves in this War against the Global Islamic Jihad. The Liberals in Congress, and I include our own Republican idiots like Arlen Specter and Lincoln Chafee seem more concerned with their own paranoid agendae than they are with protecting the American people.

Now I understand this from the Democrats, they would willingly sacrifice thousands of lives if it meant they could regain control of Congress and the White House, but idiots like Specter just boggle the mind.

Democrats are dangerous. How can we possibly entrust our national security to a party that doesn't understand the nature of our enemies or how to combat them? How can we entrust our nation's safety to people who don't believe there is a security crisis? How can we entrust the Democrats with our security when every move they have made in Congress has been intended to thwart the President's every effort to protect Americans?

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