The intelligence game says we should have gotten them before something happened....The old connect the dot thing...
We knew about Hasan at Ft Hood...
Knew about the panty bomber
And 1000 to 1....we knew about these creeps, too...and did nothing....
A law enforcement mindset and strategy precludes any attempt to stop the terror unless it’s in play.
Lookit that story of Awlaki......and that mostly happened during the Bush Administration.