Chad Irby wrote:

And, once again, the question here isn't the theoretical flaws in the US
system - it's that you were claiming that the Canadian security system
was so good no terrorists could get through (which the Canadian audit
showed to be *very* false).



Okay, let's move away from the theoretical to the factual:

"Delays in the government's project to merge
the separate fingerprint systems used by the
FBI and immigration officials has left U.S.
borders vulnerable to criminals and terrorists,
the Justice Department believes."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/...int/index.html

Looking through the Frasier report on UK and Canadian news sites
as well as the MSNBC reference, it was a) good news: Canada's is
as good as anybody else's but b) bad news: it's awful. (-;

The thing is, of the Portland Seven and Buffalo Eight terror cases,
all but one (Mike Hawash, ex-Intel graphics software engineer
and suburban Portland soccer dad his first decade as US citizen)
were born in the US. Unless everybody is screened, combined
with some sort of MI5-style domestic intelligence, the US will
remain vulnerable to Bin Laden's American legions even if not
one non-US citizen/permanent resident were allowed in.

gld