Hindsight is always 20/20. I don't care how many 'warnings', specific or otherwise the FBI or CIA had prior to 9/11. This is a huge country, and people have the ability to travel all over unhindered. If someone is using several aliases, it would be difficult to track them down.
I don't fault the CIA or FBI for what happenend PRIOR to 9/11, but I WOULD fault them if they haven't learned their lessons by now. Racial or ethnic profiling notwithstanding, we're going to have to be much more scrupulous about who we let into this country.
I read an article in our local paper yesterday about how student visas are being limited and that those who are here on them will be watched more closely. And if they drop out of school, they WILL be deported.
It is sad that it took an evil of such a magnitude to galvanize folks, but it is better late than never.
"more scrupulous about who we let into this country. I read an article in our local paper yesterday about how student visas are being limited" Where do they get the visas? They get them in their own country, correct? That's who I'd want to question. The people that give the visas. Conspiracy?
All this watching is going to cost us a lot of tax dollars.