Keep coming back to this: When Nidal Hasan killed 13 at Ft. Hood, it was failure of President/NatSec. When kid kills 20 little kids? No.
@MikeDrewWhat THen we define "nat sec bureaucracy" incorrectly, and badly so.
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@emptywheel Just to point out: those args may not make the case adequately wrt to Hasan either. I didn't regard that as a nat sec failure. -
@MikeDrewWhat Oh, I don't either. But like I said, Pete Hoekstra used Awlaki intercepts to argue it was. -
@emptywheel What Pete Hoekstra argues doesn't characterize general reaction the way "was" in your tweet denotes. -
@MikeDrewWhat Well, he got a whole lot of press, which led to 3 years study on targeting of internal threats. -
@emptywheel Well yr tweet suggested you think the gen reaction was it "was failure of President/NatSec." Had it not, u wldntve heard from me -
@MikeDrewWhat Would you agree w/"The politicized fearmongering reaction," AKA Pete Hoekstra-generated press? -
@emptywheel I don't really recall it. I know R pols insisted it was terrorism, bt they seemed to me to be straining against gen. sentiment.
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