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Originally Posted by Undertoad

We can only hope that there is a middle ground somewhere between imprisoning innocent people and allowing the worst living convicted terrorists in the US to write letters extolling terrorism to other terrorists while in maximum security federal prisons.

Just because they wrote letters promoting terrorism, therefore people were killed? Does UT fear free speech? Free speech killed American? Nonsense.

Instead, we should encourage those prisoners to write more letters. It identifies their compatriots. Those letters were not the problem. Remember why the second WTC attack could happen. Top law enforcement management conspired to assist those terrorists by not doing their job AND by stifling Federal agents from doing their job. Two Chicago agents were even loudly yelled at, "You will not open a criminal investigation!" Find your enemy. Name that FBI supervisor who did the yelling.

Those letters from imprisoned terrorists did nothing dangerous. But what did make terrorism possible were Justice Department managers - many without field experience - who would let information from those correspondences go to waste. Managers with the classic MBA mentality - they just knew what was better and did not need dirty fingernails to be law enforcement managers.

Need we be reminded of the translator ordered to stop working so fast even when Federal field agents literally called and begged for expedited translations? Who discovered a peer was translating FBI surveillance of what was that peer's boyfriend. Who reported all this and instead was made the victim. I don't see UT complaining about this manager who is clearly a greater threat to all Americans.

Do we fear letters from Federal prisoners to their Spanish peers? Or do we fear the real threat - top management in the Justice Department who even stifle four separate FBI investigations on what became known as 11 September attacks. Those letters from imprisoned terrorists should have been the best thing to happen to law enforcement - if Justice Department top management was doing its job.

Free speech is not the problem. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management - who have access to those prisoner's letters and could not even bother to comprehend facts. We are blaming the wrong threat. This discussion should be citing, by name, Federal officials failed in their job. Who did not even learn with whom terrorism prisoners were corresponding?

Free speech is not the threat. Incompetent bosses of those Federal agents are getting away, again, without being blamed.