DAS Blog

We shouldn't think of having the appearance of fighting terrorism and actually hindering that fight as being contradictory aims or even as independent, but it is possible that the same things that give the appearance of fighting terrorism (e.g. invading Iraq, datamining international calls) actually are the things that hinder our fight (e.g. giving Al Qaeda what it wants, allowing terrorist communications to be buried in a haystack of misleading data). A puff of smoke may look as if it came from a gun aimed at terrorists and be cover for those same terrorists to escape being actually shot at.

... jus' sayin' ...