It’s extortion.
Government brought in the terrorists beginning with the immigration act of 1965.
It’s a case of:
‘Give us all your information and privacy or our buddies here blow up your kids’.
Funny how we could afford to have privacy before we became so diverse.
How did government function for 200 years without having a dossier on every 6yr old and 90yr old?
And, by the way, did giving up most of our 4th amendment rights to feel safe protect the 8yr old killed in Boston? Or the military personnel killed at Fort Hood? Or any other terrorist act committed since the Patriot Act was supposed to keep us safe?
What about the underwear bomber? His own father begged us to put him on the no fly list.
No, OUR security agencies were too busy using all that information for their OWN political and personal gain.
In truth, we’re no safer than we were before 9/11.
Ask East Germans how safe they were under the Stasi. Because that’s what we’ve got here now.
Governments kill WAY more people and WAY more efficiently than any terrorist could imagine.
They're still hiding their use of Hassan as a source of information ~ probably because he murdered 14 people.
I"d imagine the Post expose interfered with whatever intelligence operation was working to reveal that Hassan was a bad apple.