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Lest We Repeat

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

On the seventh anniversary of the 9/11/01 attack on America, we must remember those who died that awful day. Just as importantly, we must remember the mistakes that made us vulnerable so that we do not repeat them. Many of those mistakes involved overreactions to abuses of authority in an earlier era. When something bad happens, it is common for people to demand that measures be put in place to make certain that it never happens again. The problem is that the measures needed for such certainty may increase the likelihood of some even worse occurrence. The most notorious of these measures was the ill-conceived and ultimately disastrous wall between law enforcement and foreign intelligence, intentionally preventing the sharing of information about terrorist threats...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on September 11, 2008 (boomark / email).