When you track everyone, you track no one

[Os Cangaceiros]

(Reuters) - The name of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was listed on the U.S. government's highly classified central database of people it views as potential terrorists. But the list is so vast that this did not mean authorities automatically kept close tabs on him, sources close to the bombing investigation said on Tuesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/24/us-usa-explosions-boston-suspect-idUSBRE93N06720130424

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

The Republicans (shit, probably some Dems too) will use this to make the case that the problem is one of not enough surviellance; more money and resources dedicated to tracking, and no doubt detaining, as many people as possible.

The War on Terror...it reminds me of Blackadder;

"A war hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief
of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside"

[Brutus]

We haven't been in a sticker situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun