[nathanbedford]

The fact that the intelligence system failed seems to me to support the need for layered defenses such as ATI screening. When a system boasts 600 million passenger flights a year it does not seem feasible to rely on an imperfect intelligence system, an imperfect profiling system, or an imperfect imaging system. Our only course is to intelligently layer all of the systems and more.

[DaveTesla]

That is ridiculous.

Last week I saw where a 16 year old kid hid in the wheel
well of a commercial flight to Boston and fell to his
death.

Could have just as well been a bomb.
The Idea of giving up your Constitutional rights
for the illusion of safety is not only going to
lead to a tyrannical government but NO safety as well.

Who let the under ware bomber on a flight with NO
Visa?
From a foreign country as well.

How about we stop letting these terrorists fly in here
in the first place.

Tyranny will not protect you.

[Sarajevo]

State Department failed to confirm terror suspect's visa

It is one of several unconnected dots -- the State Department failed to determine that Christmas bombing suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab had a U.S. visa until after he nearly set off explosives on a U.S.-bound airplane.

State Department officials told CNN on Thursday that a series of errors caused AbdulMutallab to avoid classification as a terrorist, which would have have placed him on a no-fly list and caused his multiple entry visa to be revoked. One of those errors was the inability of the State Department -- which issues visas -- to initially determine whether AbdulMutallab had one.

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The bottom line- it was a failure of the system at the highest level, and regular people pay the price.