Terrorism and the law

Glenn Greenwald has a must-read post today on how, to quote the title of said post, "legal surveillance, not illegal eavesdropping, stopped the U.K. terrorist attacks":

Bush supporters have been attempting to exploit the U.K. terrorist plot to bolster support for an array of extremist and lawless Bush policies -- from warrantless eavesdropping to torture -- even though there is not a shred of evidence that any of those policies played any role whatsoever, either in the U.S. or England, in impeding this plot.

However,

The important point is that the British were able to stop this plot while complying with the law and obtaining warrants -- and, more importantly, American investigators were able to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists, including those communicating with U.S. persons, within the FISA framework.

Read the whole post. And then go see Digby, Steve Benen, and John Amato.