After Paris Attacks, C.I.A. Director Rekindles Debate Over Surveillance
So I guess the time to politicize these attacks has come already. Pity.<p>But if anything the attacks prove that the whole surveillance thing isn&#x27;t effective, not that we need even more of it. After all if a bunch of lowlifes and assholes are capable of setting this up without any triggers in spite of some of them already being in police databases for activities related to terrorism then clearly that approach is bankrupt. So, thanks for the &#x27;rekindling&#x27;, now please <i>shut it down</i>. And divert those funds to old fashioned policework, which seems to have worked pretty good in the past (RAF, IRA etc).