After the fact, it turned out that we had a great deal of information about the 9/11 attackers. That didn't stop that attack.
Or the Cole attack, where we also (after the fact) found that we had information, or the Boston attack, where the new 'capture every text message' monitoring was in place.
It isn't working. Americans are still dying.
The down side is that Americans are also losing their freedom and privacy.
And still we die, even with the monitoring.
So find another solution.
/johnny
Because the Dems had erected a wall between intel agencies. If you can't share information , you're not going to stop an attack. The US Gov't wasn't allowed to dive into the laptop of the hijacker in FL to find incriminating info because there were privacy laws preventing it. That info would have stopped 9/11.
Americans are still dying.
Far, far fewer than if the terrorists had free reign to communicate with their sympathizers in the US. As I said, there has been no devastating attack since 9/11. That is largely due to potential terrorists believing they are being monitored.