Today, the Washington Post published the first of three articles that describe the enormous growth of national security organizations over the past nine years, an apparatus so vast it overwhelms itself with information with one answer for every problem: more.
At his fingertips is the apparatus of one of the most powerful state information machines in the world, and it can all be harnessed to send one simple message to each of those 1.3 billion people: There is no God.
Airport security was a joke, and our national intelligence apparatus was a bunch of fiefdoms that didn't want to cooperate and wouldn't share information with each other.