Scott Spiegel

“This administration pays lip service to national security and gives out with a lot of rhetorical notions that makes it notional security instead of national security…

“Probably the country with the strongest security checks for airline passengers– and the strongest reason for such checks– is Israel. Israel profiles…

“Recently, an Israeli security official was interviewed on Fox News Channel by Mike Huckabee. The official said that he has testified before Congress and offered to help with suggestions on how the American airport security system could be improved– and he clearly thought it needed a lot of improvement.

“Apparently the only response he got from American security officials was a polite letter. ‘They didn’t tell me to go to Hell,’ he said. ‘They were polite.’

“There is no stronger indication of danger than officials who don’t want to hear what anybody else has to say, even when those who offer to help have a system that works better than ours.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/01/12/notional_security__99857.html

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