[TeMPOraL]

I might be missing some subtleties here, because it does read surprisingly reasonable. A "crisis" "galvanizing public opinion" is always a recipe for disaster. See e.g. US overreaction to 9/11, from which the whole world still suffers.

[ceejayoz]

Yeah. I'm no fan of Barr, but "we should think about this stuff before a big event stirs public outrage" is very reasonable.

"Don't do anything until we have a big problem" is how we got the TSA, Homeland Security, and the Patriot Act.