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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
I keep hearing hints of *possible* plots uncovered. But these guys are so secretive and slippery, I have the feeling that the powers that be pounce and interrogate, rather than relying on surveillance to see what's going to happen. Nobody wants to be the one that even suspected and failed to prevent an attack.

I would have though by now we all would have seen where the anti-terrorism campaign had a problem. Investigators in AZ, MN, and IL all were on the trail of 11 Sept terrorists - and all were taken off the trail by FBI management. FBI that ran a crime laboratory so pathetic that data was even being invented rather than analyzed. FBI so pathetic that even their own spy master was a spy. FBI so anti-American as to tell - no ... yell at - agents in IL that they would not open a criminal investigation.

We never needed all these liberties restricted. We, even here in the Cellar, participate in the problem. News reporters would routinely demonstrate how pathetic airport security was. How did Congress respond? They passed a law making it illegal for reporters to do such stories. Where in the Cellar is outrage over this incompentant Congressional action?

They need more power such as the Patriot Act and they need more bureaucracy such as Fatherland security only because they have a classic top management problem. Rather than fix the problem, they spend more money and make more bureaucracy - like a good MBA is taught to do.

We have a NASA who has the same, exact management problem that murdered seven Challenger accidents. The Columbia investigation board is so depressed about the effectiveness of their report that, as quoted now in today's CNN.com, one Noble Prize winner, a student of Feynman, now says they don't believe the murder of seven Columbia astronauts will change things. That is why they keep leaking details of their report, a little bit at a time, so that even Daily News readers and Action News viewers will hear why those astronauts werel killed.

85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. That is the problem in NASA. That was long clearly the problem in the FBI and other national security organizations. And the same incompetant management, instead, wants more power to even monitor what books you buy from Amazon and take out of your library? Where has anyone been addressing the real threat to homeland security - our government leaders who don't first blame themselves.

But then those same government leaders can outrightly lie about WMD, they can advocate the invasion of another sovereign nation without any smoking gun. Yet so many even in the Cellar support such incompetant and dangerous leaders.