New revelations about the Valerie Plame case show special prosecutor Fitzgerald to be very duplicious. He seems to have shaded the truth when he had his press conference after indicting Scooter Libby when he said that Libby had been the first person to reveal Valerie Plame's identity to the press when he knew that was not the case. Here is an article from abledanger that suggests Fitxgerald had access to information with which he should have been able to stop the 911 plot but he didn't exploit it. This appears to me to be a clear case where some torture would have saved the lives of a lot of people. It seems to me that Bin Ladens spy should have been treated as such, even though he was a naturalized citizen.

http://www.abledangerblog.com/2006/08/official-statement-from-peter-lance.html

I think part of the problem was in the Clinton Administration approach to terrorism which treated it as a crime. They treated it as a criminal matter where you had to wait until after an act was committed before taking action. They were focused on getting convictions rather than stopping the crime. This is a problem that most Democrats have with dealing with terrorism.