The FBI can't be everywhere. There are nearly 300 million US citizens. Concerned citizens need to be vigilent and report suspicious activity. If there had been the same kind of wariness prior to 9-11, those attacks could have been thwarted. I don't think the strippers who danced for Atta and the other 9-11 terrorists would ignore the terrorist threats made by them nowadays.
But I'm still kind of disgusted.
You know that because of the UK/NY bombing near-miss, they deployed National Guardsmen at some US airports, right?
The SF Chronicle featured a huge photo of the troops "guarding" SF Int'l Airport --NONE of them had magazines in their weapons.
They wouldn't even be able to fire, if they had to!
My ire is not confined to the FBI per se, it's just that lots of visible parts of the federal "anti-terror effort" are kind of lame and depressing.
Remember the USS Cole bombing? Off of Yemen? The captain rightly feared a follow-up attack, and ordered men to stand armed guard topside.
WITHOUT AMMO --and I do NOT mean they didn't have any. They were specifically forbidden to be locked and loaded for fear of AN ACCIDENT.
Who would want to serve under such careerists?