The Senate findings on the Abdulmutallab failures. Not Abdulmutallab’s, the government’s. Which, from my reading, amounts to; no one talks to each other. Wasn’t that why we got the DHS? And so why have we spent millions of dollars creating another layer of bureaucracy to coordinate these sorts of things (I said laughing at the irony)?
As for the rest, it has to be hard to walk the line between security and police state. Government agencies should have to have compelling reasons to put people on watch lists. But once they have reasons the response should be fast, decisive and without second-guessing the legal ramifications. I doubt it is possible to nail that line down and we’ll just have to stagger along, hopefully not straying too far to either side.
Not So Fast 