Tyrtaios-rising:

In all fairness, the U.S. intelligence communities intelligence failure about al-Qaeda was a series of blunders over time, to include my all time favorite, the Torricelli amendment that made recruiting people with ties to terrorist groups illegal without special approval - it seems some of these people are unsavory and criminals - gasp!...

Of course were those same unsavory criminals to have been Wall Street executives who in addition to driving the economy into the ground were making substantial contributions to politicians like Torricelli, well then they would be OK. It is only the unsavory criminals who do not make political contributions who are to be eschewed.