Time reports that sharing of British and U.S. intelligence on this matter was vital to uncovering the plot and that, in fact, it was the Bush administration's quite successful no-leak policy that encouraged the British to share with the U.S. as much as they did. Time further reports that it was indeed U.S. communication intercepts that aided this effort immensely.*
So, I'm fine if Bush brags.
It's when certain politicians go further to say that this vote or that will result in your mother dying in terrorist carnage that I have a problem with.
* sorry, no link. I'm an old-fashioned guy with a magazine in my hands ... and I believe you have to be a subscriber to access Time online.
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