Reply #5: Agreed. In some respects we have "too much technology" [View All]

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There is a suspects list set up by the Bush administration, but evidently it has hundreds of thousands of names (if not millions). I cannot believe there are a half million people who are willing to blow themselves up to make a final, emphatic point. And if we ask our security services to be responsible for the actions of a half million people, that is exactly the same thing as asking them to not follow any leads at all because you cannot realistically follow a half million people.

This seems more like a case of bureaucrats acting like bureaucrats. When the embassy received the warning, it didn't affect their station personally so they didn't do anything about it.

I don't know how you change the fundamental nature of bureaucracies, but it is not primarily an IT issue and anybody who approaches it as simply an IT issue will fail.