"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Counterterrorism Center Has Only ‘Eight or Nine’ Middle East Analysts
Submitted by Christopher Lempa on Wed, 2010-01-06 04:00
"While [the National Counter Terrorism Center]. . .has taken much criticism in the media over the past two weeks for failing to flag Abdulmutallab as a threat, NCTC has so far evaded criticism over a structural problem it still faces five years after its creation: of the 300 analysts working at the center, fewer than a dozen focus full-time on the Middle East."
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