Posted on 11/23/2010 4:31:37 PM PST by JohnKinAK
Napolitano said she hoped the U.S. could get to a place in the future where Americans would not have to be as guarded against terrorist attacks as they are and that she was actively promoting research into the psychology of how a terrorist becomes radicalized.
“The long-term [question] is, how do we get out of this having to have an ever-increasing security apparatus because of terrorists and a terrorist attack?” she said. “I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful."
DHS and intelligence officials are not as far along in understanding that process as they would like, Napolitano said, adding that until that goal is reached, steps need to be put in place to ensure the public’s safety.
“We don’t know much,” she said. “If you were to try and devise a template about what connects this terrorist to this terrorist and how they were raised and what schools they went to and their socioeconomic status, or this or that, it’s all over the map.
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This would end pretty quickly if jurors were allowed to do their job. Unfortunately, if a judge declares that probable cause exists before a search is performed, the government will (illegitimately) deny the target of the search any opportunity to examine whether probable cause really existed. The only practical venue in which such matters may be decided, with witnesses subject to cross-examination, is the jury trial. If a jury determines that probable cause did not exist for a search, it should refrain from construing any evidence therefrom in a manner detrimental to the target.
Judges may declare that stopping cars somehow constitutes "probable cause", but it one were to ask a jury whether the cop pulling each motorist would, likely as not, discover that the motorist was DUI, I doubt most jurors would say yes.
Thanks for the post. Too tired to say anything more pereptive than that ;) Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
Still waiting and looking forward to take that train from the Hilton to nowhere on the NorSide.
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