A Tool We Need to Stop the Next Airliner Plot

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Author(s)	Michael Chertoff
Source	The Washington Post
Date	August 29, 2006
URL	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082800849.html
Quote	"If we learned anything from Sept. 11, 2001, it is that we need to be better at connecting the dots of terrorist-related information. After Sept. 11, we used credit card and telephone records to identify those linked with the hijackers. But wouldn't it be better to identify such connections before a hijacker boards a plane?"

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This item argues for the position United States should begin data mining on the topic 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot.