Question is: Does the NYT approve of the methods used?
The answer is - no. Headline:
Recent Arrests in Terror Plots Yield Debate on Pre-emptive Action by Government
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/us/09plot.html
"The Miami and New York cases are inspiring a new round of skepticism from some lawyers who are openly questioning whether the government, in its zeal to stop terrorism, is forgetting an element central to any case: the actual intent to commit a crime.
" 'Talk without any kind of an action means nothing,' said Martin R. Stolar, a New York defense lawyer. 'You start to criminalize people who are not really criminals.' "