The agency's terrorist interrogation program has been implemented lawfully, with great care and close review, producing vital information that has helped disrupt plots and save lives.

Thanks to our intelligence and law enforcement professionals, we're disrupting plots and securing our cities and skies.

The authorities' rising success at disrupting plots is a consequence of their cumulatively rising knowledge over 10 years of work.

Defenders of the program say it has been a critical tool in helping disrupt terrorist plots and prevent attacks inside the United States.

A spokesman for the Moroccan government said cells linked to al Qaeda were regularly dismantled by the authorities and it has disrupted several terrorist plots.

They disrupt complex plots against the UK, such as when would-be terrorists in Britain travel abroad to gain training in bomb-making.

In Amman, the Jordanian security service helped disrupt plots aimed at the American, British and Jordanian diplomatic missions in Lebanon last week, officials said.

Names and descriptions of dozens of Qaeda members helped authorities to disrupt terrorist plots in Germany, Italy, Britain and the United States.

It has provided critical leads to counterterrorism investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, disrupting plots and ultimately saving lives.

"The plain truth is that we act in strict accord with American law," he said, adding that the agency's actions "have been very effective in disrupting plots and saving lives."