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Outright Dishonesty at the Washington Times

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Catttt4/17/2009 2:02:02 pm PDT

re: #27 KingKenrod

Is 5% small? 10%? %0.001? Who knows, the DHS doesn’t. Is the qualifier even relevant given the DHS’s lack of evidence to support the “small percentage” qualifier? The DHS just pulled it out of their ass based on anecdote, apparently. Let them suffer the indignation of ginned-up outrage. Maybe next time they will get it right.

Proactive heads up warnings of POSSIBLE threats and warning signs to look for is a large part of the job of DHS. They warn about all sorts of things. Would you rather that they pull back on this possible threat or that possible threat because most people in the group are upstanding people? That is the case with almost all people, but in each group, there are possible, small threat sources. A handful of people caused 9/11, and a lead on one of them, followed up on, would have stopped them.