@JPB,
JPB wrote:
No, they'll be pissing and moaning about the government not doing the right things to prevent an attack and pissing away billions in resources and manpower on the wrong things.
Ahhh...so you are asserting that you, a poster here in A2K, knows more about what is and what is not "doing the right thing to prevent an attack"...than people whose training and occupation actually qualify them for that kind of decision?
Rather presumptuous of you, wouldn't you think?
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If another attack comes then all of this has been for nothing.
Wow...you want to make decisions like the one you suggested above...and you cannot even get this thought correct???!!!
If another attack comes...it comes. More than likely it will.
The purpose of intelligence operations is not prevent attacks with certainty...but to do as much as possible to prevent them. Anyone who thinks they will work with certainty...or who suggests, as you do, that if an attack happens, it means the work was worthless...
...simply is not thinking very clearly in any real sense of that expression.
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Which, so far as anyone has indicated to date, all of this has prevented nothing.
You have absolutely no idea of what has or has not been prevented...and I doubt very seriously any of these agencies will every expose their operations by satisfying your supposed need to know.
You owe much of your safety, JPB....to people you are derogating. You ought to grow the spine occasionally to say "Thank you."