From The Montreal Gazette

What the U.S. government should have learned from the Christmas Day bomber is to react vigorously when it is warned about an Islamicist extremist about to fly into the United States. Instead it is choosing to bury itself deeper in “security” that is intrusive but also elusive. The latest effort, called Secure Flight, is more evidence of ill-advised descent into the myth of a Secure State.

As the world now knows, the father of would-be Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to warn U.S. embassy officials in Nigeria about his worryingly militant son, but they were nonchalant about passing the information to the Department of Homeland Security.

There are a number of steps, starting with firing some turf-protecting bureaucrats, that the Obama administration could have taken to correct that and other failures of government process in that case. Secure Flight will not, we believe, accomplish anything important.

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Tags: Obama Administration, Secure Flight

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