Ted Cruz: Government Wasting Time On Bulk Collection, Misses Obvious Terrorists

Real Clear Politics ^ | December 6, 2015

[cripplecreek]

Government should not be trusted in the best of times.

After all, tax data collected on traditional marriage supporters in California inexplicably found its way into the hands of gay marriage supporting groups.

[GOPJ]

Sen. Ted Cruz says that if the federal government were operated competently, they would have caught the Ft. Hood attacker, the Boston bombers, and the San Bernardino shooters.

Cruz is right... the NSA doesn't have to rifle though the personal information of American citizens. In the Boston Bomber case all they would have to do is listen to the Russians who called them three times to warn them about the family.

With San Bernrdino it could have been prevented or defused IF neighbors hadn't been afraid of being called xenophobic. Lives could have been saved if California allowed easy conceal carry. One man shooting back could have saved many lives.

These deaths and more to come are an consequence of liberal stupidity... and of perverse liberal incentives for radical Muslims.

[Gandalf the Mauve]

Yep. The government’s whining “it’s getting harder to spy on everybody” is simply butt-covering for its own ineptitude. Actually, making it harder to spy on everybody so that the government simply has to give up on it would increase security by forcing the intel agents to get off their butts and do some actual investigative work on actual suspicious targets instead of just sitting in front of the computers.

[Gandalf the Mauve]

It is to have the data available to trace, once we get a lead.

The only "leads" this government cares about are "leads" on political opposition.

[G Larry]

For the IRS and EPA, yes, but this other data is of no value in oppression.

[MeganC]

Spying on Americans has nothing to do with preventing terrorism. It has everything to do with finding out who’s willing to oppose the regime.

[FourPeas]

[FourPeas]

"We know that his wife came in to this country on a fiance visa, the exact same visa vetting the Obama administration promises will keep us safe from ISIS terrorists among Syrian refugees."

Likely even less rigorous. She had a passport, a school record in Pakistan and a father/family living in Saudi Arabia.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“No one in this regime is trying to prevent or prosecute any of these mooselimbs”

I have no doubt of it.