[privacy] U.S. Says Wiretapping Helped Foil Terror Plot in Germany

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Boston Globe (Reuters).

[snip]

Information gained through a U.S. wiretapping program much criticized by
civil liberties advocates helped authorities foil attack plots last week in
Germany and Denmark, top U.S. intelligence officials said on Monday.

U.S. Director of Intelligence Michael McConnell said the surveillance
program had made "significant contributions" in discovering and breaking up
a suspected plot in Germany to bomb American installations. He cited them
as a reason that the U.S. Congress should reject attempts to restrict it.

"It allowed us to see and understand all the connections ... to al Qaeda,"
McConnell told a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

The program also contributed to the arrests in Denmark of eight Muslims,
with suspected links to al Qaeda, on suspicion of planning a bomb attack,
National Counterterrorism Center Director John Redd told reporters later.

[snip]

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/09/10/us_says_wiretap
ping_helped_foil_plot_in_germany/

- - ferg

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