musicmax
11-24-2011, 02:00 PM
This was the leadoff question of the debate, yet there has been NO coverage of whether Meese was ANYWHERE near correct.
Consider:
Major Nidal Malik Hasan: succeeded in the Fort Hood terror attack
Richard Reid (aka "shoe bomber"): attack failed due to bomb malfunction - nothing about PATRIOT stopped Reid
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (aka "underwear bomber"): attack failed due to bomb malfunction - nothing about PATRIOT stopped Abdulmutallab
Faisal Shahzad (aka the Times Square Car Bomber): attack failed due to Shahzad's incompetence - nothing about PATRIOT stopped Shahzad
I found a list of "30 terror plots foiled" at the Heritage Foundation website, but that list laughably included Reid & Abdulmutallab, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's arrest (for incidents both pre- and post-PATRIOT). The list demonstrated no direct links between the "foiling" of the plots with any specific powers that PATRIOT added.
Consider:
Major Nidal Malik Hasan: succeeded in the Fort Hood terror attack
Richard Reid (aka "shoe bomber"): attack failed due to bomb malfunction - nothing about PATRIOT stopped Reid
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (aka "underwear bomber"): attack failed due to bomb malfunction - nothing about PATRIOT stopped Abdulmutallab
Faisal Shahzad (aka the Times Square Car Bomber): attack failed due to Shahzad's incompetence - nothing about PATRIOT stopped Shahzad
I found a list of "30 terror plots foiled" at the Heritage Foundation website, but that list laughably included Reid & Abdulmutallab, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's arrest (for incidents both pre- and post-PATRIOT). The list demonstrated no direct links between the "foiling" of the plots with any specific powers that PATRIOT added.