Nigerian tried to blow up the plane

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Originally Posted by goof2

What I took from the post was that failures at Homeland Security caused this incident and by calling it "the worst legacy of the Bush Admin." I implied some level of Bush responsibility for this incident. Since it was my implication from the statement rather than directly stated I posted "you appear to think". If my implication was incorrect Homeslice can correct me.

I think that something like the Department of Homeland Security is necessary. I also think that, being a government agency, the bureaucracy and glut that seems to require has made it inefficient and (to a degree) ineffective. It certainly didn't function well in this case. That is too bad.

Then you were ascribing a great deal of content to the statement that was not present.

There are several government agencies that handle the sort of thing that Homeland Security does, creating ADDITIONAL replication of tasks. Simply creating an oversight board, or even just going so far as creating efficient sharing of records would be more useful, as well as more fiscally responsible.