PBS Newshour: on Homeland Security


Ben Carson: Shia-led Iran is more dangerous than ISIL

On Iran, Carson says Congress must be involved in Iran deal. In his CPAC remarks this year, Carson expressed concern that the Shia-led government in Iran may be more dangerous than the Islamic State militant group. On CNN, he was critical of President Obama's negotiations with Iran, saying Congress needed a strong role in the process. He supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress [denouncing Obama's nuclear limitation deal with Iran].
Source: PBS Newshour on 2015 Conservative Political Action Conf. May 3, 2015

Jan Ting: Terrorism dragnet: more profiling and not less profiling

Q: 1200 people have been caught in the dragnet since 9/11, but we haven’t shown any connection to terrorism. In fact, the only two people that we have caught since 9/11 are the shoe-bomber and Moussaoui Zacaria, both of which resulted from good simple intelligence and by vigilance of flight attendants. What’s your view?

TING: I think the dragnet makes a lot of sense. No one is profiling Arab-American men. We’re profiling foreign men who have temporarily come to the US in the past couple of years. It seems to me that’s a legitimate focus. The government has a compelling interest in preventing another terrorist attack. We know that all the 9/11 terrorists were young males from other countries who came to the US recently. So that’s a reasonable profile. I think the case could be made for more profiling and not less profiling. I don’t think that it’s racial profiling. I don’t think it’s ethnic profiling in the sense of identifying people on the basis of skin color or on the basis of appearance.

Source: PBS Newshour “Terrorism Dragnet” transcript Apr 3, 2002

Walter Mondale: Star Wars didn't work in 1984 and still doesn't work

When I campaigned against Reagan [in 1984], he was talking about “Star Wars.” Don’t worry about the Soviets, they’ll send those missiles at us but we’ll never be hurt. We’ll have this high altitude defense. [In the Bush 2000 campaign], they’re back at it again even though not one of those defensive missiles have ever worked. I think we should keep testing it. But to commit us to a system that could lead to an arms race, that’s the same thing we talked about 20 years ago.
Source: PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer Aug 15, 2000

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