Stewart Baker posts over at Instapundit:
The Senate Intelligence Committee report identifies fourteen “points of failure.” Failure No. 2 is the decision not to put Abdulmutallab on the “no fly” list, which the intel committee attributes to “the language of the watchlisting standard, the manner in which it was being interpreted at the time, or both.”
Hang on. The intel committee is saying that the Bush Administration had made it too hard to put people on the watchlist? Was that the result of some previously unnoticed, late-breaking wave of Bush Administration squishiness on terrorism? Not exactly. What the intel committee doesn’t mention is a concerted 2008 campaign, led by the ACLU, that was intended to make the watchlisting standard more rigid, and did.
More at the link, including a great passage from Baker’s Skating on Stilts.
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