Here at home, our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement agencies have worked together with considerable success: gathering intelligence, stitching it together, and making arrests -- from Denver to Texas, from Illinois to New York -- disrupting plots and saving American lives.

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Capitol Hill has been more hawkish, but there appears to be considerable resistance in the intelligence and military establishments against an Iranian attack.

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As they hear a formidable military commander explain the counter-intelligence strategy he developed and is now implementing with considerable, and growing, effect, they will agree with his recommendation: The surge is making a difference and the effort and expenses required for it to make a sustained contribution to our security are justified.

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