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Other failures - including the limits of technology to allow analysts to correlate the data on Abdulmutallab, as well as a lack of other processes - are also noted in the report, though they are attributed to systemic problems...
...professor at Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law and a former adviser to military prosecutors at Guantánamo Bay, however, argues that the two options are not mutually exclusive. The Administration could have designated Abdulmutallab as an enemy combatant for a very short duration to allow for his interrogation, and then moved the case back to federal court, which he believes is the proper place for such a trial...
...still more than enough to wipe each other off the map. But in the Strangelovean world of nuclear deterrence, the slightest threat to parity is a cause for major problems. Early on in the START negotiations last summer, Kristensen says, the Russians balked at a provision that would allow the U.S. to inspect the production facilities of its new RS-24 ICBM because they would not be able to inspect American ICBM construction sites. Kristensen says that's because the U.S. isn't building any new missiles. "It may seem absurd, but both sides are very edgy about maintaining parity...
...treaty. Russia has long claimed that the missile-defense system, components of which Obama agreed to remove from Europe last year, would force it to increase its nuclear capability. "There is a danger that our partners, by creating such an 'umbrella,' will feel completely secure and thus can allow themselves to do what they want, disrupting the balance, and aggressiveness will rise immediately," Putin said...
...Given al-Qaeda's love of head fakes, the official wonders what percentage of the 550,000 names on the U.S. terrorism watch list might be decoys intended to jam American databases and allow more furtive or budding extremists to get lost in the mass of information. But even if there is a high number of errant names on such lists, he acknowledges, they are a necessary evil - for now. Although the U.S. intelligence systems are imperfect and occasionally get swamped, casting as wide a net as possible is still the best hope for identifying the largest number of would...