Reply #7: The problem is: They had enough info before and never used it

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Then they open the flood gates of money to get new technology to help prevent the mistakes they made before (and using the excuse, well if we had spent more money 9/11 would not have occurred) - so instead of shoring up the errors on how information was used before they deflect the blame to technology and data.

Data mining on some levels is understandable in many ways, but using it as a crutch and tossing a lot of money into before you fix the core issues is a distraction and wasteful - not to mention probably not real helpful in the things they need to be doing.