8 years between US attacks

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Originally Posted by SpenceThe problem with this approach is that it 1) may (some would argue has) lead to wildly liberal interpretation of govt authority and 2) is rendered invalid on the first fresh attack be it random or otherwise. Hey nike women heels , I'm as glad as anyone we've been attack free since 9/11, but considering the slow and patient approach al Qaeda has taken in the past nike dunk low high heels , 8 years between US attacks, it's not anything I'm feeling more secure over. Terrorisim in general appears to be way up in the past decade and trending in the wrong direction today. The real question is, are we building a safer world for our children? On that front I think we may be headed in the wrong direction. -spence I agree completely with your first point. I think much more work has to be done to very narrowly define (and therefore limit government's approach to) terrorism, so that it is not used to circumvent the Constitution nikes high heel jordans , our criminal laws and civil rights. Since the potential for abuse is great, so must we tread carefully and with great scrutiny - much more so than the current administration seems willing to do. Your second point, whether a "fresh attack" renders the approach invalid, I think strays from the issue. Clearly, once an attack occurs, the issue surrounding a probable cause standard for intercepts and other warrants becomes moot - the intercepts having been intended to discover and prevent such an attack from occuring in the first place. T3G