Bury your head in the sand all you want, the facts speak for themselves: both HLS and State failed miserably here and it was pure luck those people were not killed... as a matter of fact the administration quietly changed immigration laws on people coming to the USA from the Sudan, etc., that will actually make it easier for people like this to get on planes to the USA..... and into this country.
Did the intelligence on this guy rise to the level of putting him on the no fly list?
Evidently not.
Yet the retrospective view is always perfect, right?
How many others are out there that may have some sort of links to terrorist groups but haven't done anything themselves to be put on the No Fly list...yet.
How much unproven suspicion qualifies one for the No Fly list?
How tight do you make the net?
How do you guarantee that nothing will ever happen?
How do you establish a system that works without fail, without criticism, and without second guessing?
Does this mean that we have to staff foreign airports with US staff? Would that even be possible?
At what point does the flying public refuse to fly and give terrorists that victory?
I've flown out of Lagos and out of Amsterdam and neither were lacking in technology or manpower.
How does one prevent the corruption that allowed him to board the plane?
How does one absolutely prevent everything yet preserve the public's ability to travel?