Rice defends thwarting major terror attacks - Yahoo! News: "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday defended the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects as part of an unprecedented war to prevent massive attacks on civilians.
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In an interview with USA TODAY, Rice neither confirmed nor disavowed the existence of secret CIA prisons abroad that The Washington Post reported this month. She said the Bush administration's policy of making arrests before crimes are committed benefits other nations as well as the United States.
'We have never fought a war like this before where ... you can't allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them,' she said. 'Because if they commit the crime, thousands of innocent people die.'"
