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Why Are the Lessons We Learn
always the wrong lessons?
CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 11 — White House officials said Friday that the fallout from the discovery of the British bombing plot could help the administration advance its agenda in Congress. The officials cited in particular battles over supervising the program of eavesdropping without warrants and how to try detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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White House officials said the moment could prove helpful beyond the realm of politics, saying news of the plot had served to focus the public on the White House’s campaign against terrorism at a time attention seemed to be waning.
“Yesterday simply reiterated the importance of the approach that the administration has taken,” Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, said at a briefing here.
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Insisting on anonymity, a senior administration official in Washington said news of the plot against airliners would add momentum to efforts to create military tribunals for Guantánamo detainees that would strictly limit defendants’ rights.
They say it was Einstein who defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again expecting to get a different outcome.
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