Mumbai Highlights The Importance Of Terrorist Surveilance -- A Commentary

NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. AP

Ray Kelly's Wiretap Alarm -- Wall Street Journal

New York's police chief v. the lawyers on antiterror warrants.

India's three days of carnage stand as another warning about how easily terrorists can perpetrate a major attack. So when top New York City counterterrorism officials declare that U.S. intelligence laws are shackling their powers to prevent the next Mumbai, it ought to raise more than eyebrows.

Instead, almost nobody seems to care. Seven years without an attack on the U.S. mainland has created a growing public complacency. And the anti-antiterror lobby has exploited that complacency to assail and constrain critical Bush Administration intelligence programs, making it harder to intercept terrorists before they strike. As a consequence innocent Americans may be killed.

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