[Image: The South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11; photographer unknown].Yes, We Did Plan for Mumbai-Style Attacks in the U.S. -- Wall Street Journal
Why the latest assault on Bush antiterror strategy could make us less safe.
Suppose al Qaeda branched out from crashing airliners into American cities. Using small arms, explosives, or biological, chemical or nuclear weapons they could seize control of apartment buildings, stadiums, ships, trains or buses. As in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, texting and mobile email would make it easy to coordinate simultaneous assaults in a single city.
In the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, strikes on New York City and Washington, D.C., these were hypotheticals no more. They became real scenarios for which responsible civilian and military leaders had to plan. The possibility of such attacks raised difficult, fundamental questions of constitutional law, because they might require domestic military operations against an enemy for the first time since the Civil War. Could our armed forces monitor traffic in a city where terrorists were preparing to strike, search for cells using surveillance technology, or use force against a hijacked vessel or building?
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My Comment: An appropriate response to the critics who commented on President Bush's October 2001 legal memos that were released last week.
A must read.
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