From your first link:
An American intelligence official said that the United States helped German authorities track the location of two of the German suspects by eavesdropping on their cellphone conversations as they moved out of training camps in Pakistan.
Wait, how is this thanks to the Patriot Act?
The second link doesn't even mention involvement of US intel in the distrupting the plot. It only mentions that air marshalls are being sent over (after the plot was disrupted, no less) to provide further security. Again, how is this proof the Patriot Act has helped?
Now for the next ten.
The last seven are with help from other countries.
None of these cases demonstrate the efficacy of the Patriot Act. In order to do that, the report would need to reveal which parts of the Act allowed us to discover these plots that, without the Act, would not have been able to be uncovered. I see no indication of this being done.
By the way, just what is your picture of Patreaus supposed to proof? That he has a goofy haircut? Big ears? Or funky smile? I believe this is the first time I've seen someone argue by using an picture abstractly.
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