It was pretty amazing that in NYC/NJ it took less than 24 hours to find and capture that guy that decided to blow things up over the weekend. That suggests to me, we’re doing a pretty good job on things.
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What was the complaint about the NSA again? Seems to me they are doing the job they are suppose to be doing.
Wrong. Zero to do with the NSA and intrusive surveillance, everything to do with police work and luck. As far as I know, it went like this:
(1) Device went off on 23rd Street, NYC
(2) Device did not go off on 27th Street, NYC
(3) Fingerprint was found on the unexploded device
(4) Fingerprint was matched to Mr. Rahmani, who had previous police contact
(5) An alert (including emergency alert to phones) went out about Rahmani, who was found sleeping on a street in a nearby NJ town.
(6) Rahmani was also caught on video tossing the bombs in a trash bin in a NJ train station
If anything, this is an argument for hiring competent detectives in local police, not for more scouring of personal communications by the Feds. Or for more tracking of people, video surveillance, etc. He would have been caught as easily in 1999 as now.
All of those things failed to uncover Rahmani’s plans. Same with the Boston bombers. Both were found by a combination of luck, the human need for sleep, and old-fashioned quality police work.
Cue conspiracy theories that he’s a patsy who was put up to it in order to disrupt the elections. Trump now has a terror attack to blame on the Dems being soft on terror — he stands to benefit from this. The whole thing with no deaths, a bunch of unexploded bombs, evidence left behind, etc, might seem a bit too good to be true for some people.
Guy strikes me as more of a Lee Harvey Oswald putz than an Osama Bin Laden mastermind type.
