Family Security Matters » Publications » Exclusive: The White House Helps Connect the Dots: "On January 5, 2010 President Obama in a now-famous speech attributed our failure to stop Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to our inability to “connect the dots.” This insufficiency, he assured a worried American public, would soon be corrected though he was a bit vague on details. Fortunately for nervous Americans unsure of the administration’s plan, I am a psychic able to peer into the future and so let me offer a yet-to-happen history of how this connect-the-dots plan came to pass.
February 2010. Secretary for Homeland Security Janet Napolitano hurriedly initiates the first step to ensure that everyone in the anti-terror campaign will know “how to connect the dots.” After all, the next attack may be tomorrow! She asks her trusty assistant to assemble a top-notch team of experts to devise a test to measure this skill. Since this is basically a civil service exam, they contact the Office of Budget Management (OMB) that has legal responsibility in this area. After a few preliminary meetings, they wisely realize that such a test is fraught with murky legal issues, particularly possibilities of cultural bias, racial profiling, and accessibility for the handicapped, including the visually impaired. The Justice Department has to be brought on board, and dozens of invitations to participate in the drafting of tentative guidelines go out. A gaggle of youthful ambitious social justice-inclined lawyers anxious to impress their superiors with their Ivy League erudition takes charge."
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