Posted on 05/06/2010 10:08:57 AM PDT by bestintxas
Sources tell CBS News that would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad appeared on a Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list - Traveler Enforcement Compliance System (TECS) - between 1999 and 2008 because he brought approximately $80,000 cash or cash instruments into the United States.
TECS is a major law enforcement computer system that allows its approximately 120,000 users from 20 federal agencies to share information. The database is designed to identify individuals suspected of or involved in violation of federal law.
CBS News Exclusive Picture of Shahzad
The system has been recently called inefficient by members of Congress. In late March, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Susan Collins of Maine criticized the system in a letter to DHS, writing that, "Current functionality does not allow interoperability among databases, fast searching of information, modern interfaces for users of the system, or sufficient security to protect critical terrorist travel data."
A modernization of the system began in 2008 and is expected to be completed by 2015.
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“If this guy was on a watch list since 1999”
I infer he was on a different list, not the “watch” list:
“Faisal Shahzad appeared on a Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list - Traveler Enforcement Compliance System (TECS) - between 1999 and 2008 because he brought approximately $80,000 cash or cash instruments into the United States.”
But I’m astonished that a Pakistani bringing that much CASH into the country wasn’t monitored a little more closely, especially when he returned to Pakistan twice in one year and apparently had financial problems that were trivially easy for the MSM to track down within a very short period following his arrest.
The federal government and all its agency are hog-tied by political correctness. The Muslims don’t get equal treatment; they get special treatment so that no one’s feelings might get hurt and so that the terrorist front group C.A.I.R. doesn’t scream and threaten lawsuits about “bias.”
Drivel. You have nothing to add here.
Still, no answer to the issue at hand.
There's so much to hate.
The guy was Obama-lite.
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