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.
Boston was devastating. Even Benghazi is devastating, made the moreso because the actions of our state department and presidential administration make us wonder whose side they are even on.
You can prove that Americans are having their rights abrogated by an over-reaching federal government.
I'll take my chances with the terrorists.
3000 dead isn't devastating. 6 million into ovens is.
/johnny