Counter-Terrorism: Lists vs. Search
Monday, January 4th, 2010We don’t have all the details about the latest terrorist attempt on our country but we do know one thing: it was preventable.
President Obama calls it a “mix of human and systemic failure”. Despite a clear warning coming from the terrorist’s father, the state department did not revoke his visa, the NCTC did not put him on the 4,000 people “no fly” list or the 14,000 second screening list and everybody ignored the fact that he was put on the big 550,000 “linked to terrorism” list. Humans, all too human, made a series of bad judgment calls.
