I agree with you, to a point. The amount of money thrown at the WoT is ridiculous and I liken to the shotgun approach to target shooting, both in application and end result. Unfortunately, to prove or disprove that this is working is simply impossible. Proving something based on a certain outcome when that outcome can be argued to have existed anyway is like chasing the wind. Neither side will win. And by that I mean we shouldn't just stop funding the WoT.

I'm not an expert, but I've worked with certain agencies enough to know that there are bad people who do get caught. Though not from the front lines, which would argue the realistic aspect of just putting in technology on the front lines simply for technology's sake. Again, the shotgun approach, if we build it we will catch them. Maybe, maybe not, and in the meantime we anger the very people we are proposing to protect.

I think we stop this shotgun crap and focus on targeted threat reduction. I don't know how to do that, i'm sure we all can come up with ideas, but that's why we pay taxes and elect (hopefully) smart people to DC who have the know how and access to these answers. Right now I'm not so sure which is why we have the throw the baby out with the bathwater mentality.

But as many have said on this forum, if the American Public think it might make them safer, then the government will do it.

I'll get off my soapbox now.