Explanation seems clear to me. These are the only 2 AQ people in the US that they've actually caught over the last 4 years, so they trot out the same 2 cases to make whatever argument they need to make. If they get caught torturing American citizens inside the US, you can be sure that they will once again cite the same 2 cases to explain that only through torture did they thwart these nefarious plots.
Posted by the exile at January 23, 2006 09:42 AMAs part of its all-out campaign to defend its indefensible illegal domestic wiretapping program, the Bush administration is turning to one of its tried and true marketing techniques - branding. The product? The "Terrorist Surveillance Program"...
For the full story, see:
"Branding the Domestic Spying Scandal."