It's so important that we find terrorists that the feds can break the FISA laws (even though they allow wiretapping if needed before a warrant).
It's so important that we find terrorists that the feds can data mine all of our phone records.
But when Bush has Iraq's #1 terrorist in his sights, he can leave him be with impugnity, as long as it suits his political aims:
From 2004:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.
But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.
In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide....
Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
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