Deseret News | Hasan had Pakistan links, says lawmaker

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Hasan had Pakistan links, says lawmaker

Inept homeland security? | 7:12 a.m. Nov. 14, 2009

What are they thinking? He was a known threat to america and everyone just brushed it aside for some ungodly reason.

If he was on the homeland security list and being monitored then it was an act of pure negligence that killed our soldiers.

Whether Hasan was sending or receiving money to or from Pakistan is equally important and a red flag. These statements are a CYA reply because of their inept procedures.

Homeland security department has done more to harm america than it has done to curb terrorism. They have positions and big incomes not a job. Send homeland security to the Mexican border, maybe at least they could put americans back to work.

Agreed | 4:47 p.m. Nov. 14, 2009

Homeland Security was the biggest waste of tax payers's money.

My heart goes out to the families of the victims. God bless them all..

Scammed Again | 5:15 p.m. Nov. 14, 2009

We've been told that we have to spend billions, create an entire new, and entirely powerful, government bureaucracy, allow ourselves to be virtually strip searched at the airport, and allow more bureacrats to snoop into every aspect of our lives in order to protect us from terrorists. Now I want to know the real reason they are doing this. It is clearly not to protect us from terrorists at all.

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Mark B | 8:01 p.m. Nov. 14, 2009

How does Scammed know that DHS hasn't helped snare a dozen or more attack plans? No one ever promised that NO plan would ever succeed in causing damages or deaths. If YOU were looking for sources of trouble, wouldn't US Army officers be among the LAST places you'd look? Your argument is like saying that laws against murder must be a scam of some kind, because murders still happen. Understandable, but wrong. BTW, Pakistan's our ally in all this, right?

THINKING | 9:35 p.m. Nov. 14, 2009

What was OBAMA thinking when he shoved HOMELAND SECURITY down our throats?

Oh wait,

It was BUSH.

But that's okay, RUSH (ON LOAN FROM GOD) has taught us that we can NAIL OBAMA for things that we know he would have done if given the chance.

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