Interesting that all the comments seem to be criticisms of DF and government agencies. Which they have certainly earned.
However, we might want to pay a teensy bit of attention to the fact she points out, that we are very vulnerable to such attacks.
Probably a little bit less than in France, but not enough to make much of a difference.
Preventing surprise attacks by a determined enemy in a free society is just about impossible.
I think we’d deal much better with a Mumbai-style attack than the Indians did, but that would be simply a matter of the attack lasting hours rather than days, and deaths hopefully in the dozens instead of hundreds.
Such attacks simply cannot be handled by defense, since the attackers can choose when and where to strike and we cannot defend everywhere. The only defense is intelligence that prevents an attack. A quick response to minimize damage is about all that can be done once it starts.
And zero ain’t all that big on ‘see something, say something.’
That was the very reason I posted her comments, because she is on the Intelligence Committee, and did head it up when those millions were spent of condemning our interrogation techniques including water boarding.
If anyone should know what might happen, which would be based on current intelligence it should be her committee and Obama.
I expect she is speaking on some chatter or info not being released...
So you are right, it is a concern.
Depends upon where it is. Boston? San Francisco? Chicago? Easy. Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Dallas, not so much.