Proposed H.R.4886 would require ID to buy prepaid phones and SIMs
The rush to attribute blame to something technical and pass a quick fix law is obviously a tactic to draw attention from the real question:<p>Why did the authorities so utterly fail to protect us ?<p>The facts remain:
&#x27;Europol&#x27; knew ~400 radicalised EU citizens were at it. 
Turkish Intelligence gave the bombers name to the Belgians - seemingly ignored.<p>The Belgians, before the Belgian bombs, interrogated the French bomber for only an hour, seemingly fruitlessly.<p>This echoes previous tragic incidents where the vital intel was known and passed on but seemingly ignored or lost in the noise.<p>For instance the Boston bomb where the older brother was known to have been radicalised at training camps by his ethnic government but the intel was not properly utilised by the American authorities who had him on their books but ignored the intel and seemingly considered him an &#x27;asset&#x27; working for them.<p>Or the Paris cartoonist deaths, again a radicalised native, known to the authorities to have been radicalised in jail when as a young drug dealer he was incarcerated with Al Quaeda&#x27;s no.1 european recruiter.<p>Where are the calls for a public investigation into the near total failure by the intelligence services to stop any plots they haven&#x27;t trumped up ?<p>They have near total electronic surveillance at great chilling effect to freedom and great inconvenience to the economy yet still fare worse against unsophisticated plots than we should expect.<p>&quot;Perhaps the real secret the spies don&#x27;t want anyone  to know is they are not very good at their jobs.&quot;*<p>&lt;sarcasm&gt; Yet of course our protectors were flummoxed by &#x27;burner phones&#x27;, that no-one could have suspected (despite this been the MO of previous Euro Islamist Bombers - and a entire season of the Wire). If only we made something else illegal we would have got them... &lt;&#x2F;sarcasm&gt;<p>Perhaps mindlessly handing more power and budgets over to these morons without any public oversight is the problem.<p>We need real police, real detectives, acting on intelligence not more of the same.<p>[*] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;adamcurtis&#x2F;entries&#x2F;3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;adamcurtis&#x2F;entries&#x2F;3662a707-0af9-...</a>