Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Haste Makes Waste
This blog posted a link to an NBC report yesterday. That report says that Bush Administration officials pushed British authorities to arrest the folks behind last week's alleged airplane terror plot sooner than British investigators wanted to.
NBC is reporting today that as a result of the early arrests, British authorities are saying they don't have the evidence to successfully prosecute the suspects. The British had wanted to delay their arrests long enough to gather that evidence.
So, the Bushies eagerness to toss another political football has led to a criminal justice fumble. Let's hear it for the home team!
Meanwhile, the TSA is using the logic of bait-and-switch to defend their ability to protect us. As NBC is also reporting, "a Homeland Security report on aviation screening obtained by The Associated Press [said] the machines don't help screeners find a specific liquid or gel that can be used as a bomb."
Rather than address those concerns, the TSA is stuffing balloons in sneakers, taking X-ray pictures of those sneakers, and presenting those pictures as proof of their bomb-detecting proficiency.
Don't you just feel so much safer?
NBC is reporting today that as a result of the early arrests, British authorities are saying they don't have the evidence to successfully prosecute the suspects. The British had wanted to delay their arrests long enough to gather that evidence.
So, the Bushies eagerness to toss another political football has led to a criminal justice fumble. Let's hear it for the home team!
Meanwhile, the TSA is using the logic of bait-and-switch to defend their ability to protect us. As NBC is also reporting, "a Homeland Security report on aviation screening obtained by The Associated Press [said] the machines don't help screeners find a specific liquid or gel that can be used as a bomb."
Rather than address those concerns, the TSA is stuffing balloons in sneakers, taking X-ray pictures of those sneakers, and presenting those pictures as proof of their bomb-detecting proficiency.
Don't you just feel so much safer?
