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Argument: Argument thesis  NSA warrantless wiretapping can be rationalized
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Node Text: Has prevented new attacks

Various members of the Bush administration - including the President himself - have claimed that the warrantless wiretapping has prevented specific new attacks.

“What appeared to be another Qaeda plot, involving fertilizer bomb attacks on British pubs and train stations, was exposed last year in part through the program, the officials said.”

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“Several officials said the eavesdropping program had helped uncover a plot by Iyman Faris, an Ohio trucker and naturalized citizen who pleaded guilty in 2003 to supporting Al Qaeda by planning to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with blowtorches.”

http://www.nytimes.com/...
Node Created: Ulysses Berman — 2006-10-16 19:52:00

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