{"id":128,"date":"2003-05-20T13:23:36","date_gmt":"2003-05-20T21:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/05\/20\/more-acronyms-opposing-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2003-05-20T13:23:36","modified_gmt":"2003-05-20T21:23:36","slug":"more-acronyms-opposing-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"More Acronyms Opposing Terrorism!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Bates, the Yellow Doggerel Democrat, is spittin’ mad <\/a>at Homeland Security’s new U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indication Technology (aka US VISIT). (God, I love these acronyms. I feel like we’re living in a Nick Fury comic book.)<\/p>\n

I was struck by this claim, from the AP report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Such a tracking system could have stopped two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, Homeland Security Department undersecretary Asa Hutchinson said Monday as he gave details of the department’s new U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indication Technology, or U.S. VISIT. […]<\/p>\n

Hutchinson said such a system could have caught hijackers Mohammed Atta, who had overstayed his visa on a previous occasion, and Hani Hanjour, when he failed to show up at school as required by his student visa.<\/p><\/div>\n

The assumption seems to be that terrorists are static; they create plans in isolation from anti-terrorist measures and carry them out. In contrast, I imagine real terrorist tactics are responsive to security measures – especially well-known, public security measures like this one.<\/p>\n

Had US VISIT been in place in 2001, it probably would have stopped Mohammed Atta and Hani Hanjour – but only in the limited sense that whoever coordinated the operation would have known to send two different suicidal assholes instead, instead of sending those particular two assholes. I just don’t see that as a great accomplishment, somehow..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Bates, the Yellow Doggerel Democrat, is spittin’ mad at Homeland Security’s new U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indication Technology (aka US VISIT). (God, I love these acronyms. I feel like we’re living in a Nick Fury comic book.) I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}