It is interesting to look at the thwarting of the British terrorist's attack on airliners. It appears that all sorts of techniques that Democrats don't like were used. I suspect that some coercion was applied by the Pakistanis to the terrorists they arrested. And, a phone call from Pakistan to Britain was intercepted. On top of that money transfers were detected. The rights of the terrorists were clearly violated. If the authorities had not "violated" the terorists rights, then a lot of people would have died. Democrats claim they would do a better job of protecting us than Republicans. I wonder how they plan to that, since they don't want to do any surveillance, etc.