My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new normal

Re:My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new... by dragonwriter on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:52AM (#14060696)

Excluding attacks on US military forces engaged in post-invasion occupations, I'm pretty sure there were more terrorist attacks (total and foreign-origin) targeting the US in the Nineties than the 2000s, or, on a year-for-year basis, the portion of the 2010s that we've seen so far.

The embassy bombings, the attack on the USS Cole, the WTC bomb attack, and the Oklahoma City bombing were all notable terror attacks on the US in the 1990s.

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Re:My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new... by leereeves on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:26PM (#14061075)

Only two of those in that decade were attacks on US soil, compared to the Boston Marathon; Fort Hood; Garland, Texas; Chattanooga, Tenn; the Orlando nightclub; the "underwear bomber"; the failed Times Square car bombing; and many more attacks overseas.

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Re:My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new... by emodendroket on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:43PM (#14061829)

It's not clear how interrogations by border police could possibly have helped with any of the ones you mentioned.

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Re:My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new... by leereeves on Friday April 07, 2017 @03:22PM (#14062757)

Of course not, those are the attacks that none of the existing security measures prevented.

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Re:My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new... by emodendroket on Friday April 07, 2017 @05:02PM (#14063490)

More domestic terrorists (and rattling off examples doesn't really constitute proof of that theory) don't show the necessity of draconian border control.

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