Originally Posted by boondoggie
Can someone explain to me why this won't work? It seems pretty straightforward: Intelligence agencies pick up fingerprints of bad guys from captured safe houses and training camps, fingerprints are put in the database, bad guy tries to enter the US and gets caught. The only way to avoid it to come in some other way.
No ad hominems please. Calling Chertoff an idiot isn't an argument. Just looking for a logical explanation of the position.
I guess the terrorist tourist dollar is really important to our economy.
Now, if only we could fingerprint the illegal aliens coming across the border in Mexico. But didn't all of the 9/11 terrorists arrive by plane?
Terrorists have been known to use hotels and get on flights. What are we going to do? Blacklist every person who has ever been in that particular room or on a particular plane?
These measures deter basically diddly-squat, enrich the consultants and contractors, and create bigger haystacks in which to lose needles while losing even more hearts and minds of visitors (and even fellow US persons) who find themselves at the mercy of a confused, expensive system comprised of foolish persons, suspect data and even worse. Accenture and Booz Allen's "security" practice areas' employees will be cashing bigger checks and we'll be no safer than we were 5 years ago.