[ars]

> The government has yet to stop a single terrorist plot.

The world isn't an action movie where the hero stops the terrorist by cutting the wire on the bomb at the last minute.

An attack is stopped way way earlier in the process, where there is much less drama.

It gives a perverse incentive actually: Wait till the attack gets really big and obvious before stopping it, just so you can get some good press. I hope they never give in to this.

[flyinRyan]

We have no evidence that even one plot has been stopped. The plots they show us that they have stopped are clear cases of entrapment. So why would you assume that some great work is going on behind the scenes given these two bits of evidence?

But it's amusing you bring up action movies since you clearly believe them. The reason we're not constantly getting attacked is because no one is attacking us.