Originally Posted by
Globaliser
We sack all the people who have been following, watching and catching terrorists for decades.
Those would be the terrorists that were largely acquitted recently would it? And all the innocent people stuck in Guantanamo Bay?
Originally Posted by
Globaliser
Then we replace them with "security professionals" whose expertise seems to lie in writing books and blogging.
Eh? Bruce Schneier's day job is Chief Security Technology Officer for BT. I don't think he merits your sarcastic quotation marks when describing him as a security professional.
The fundamental problem at the moment is that the decisions are being made by politicians as knee-jerk populist moves. As Al Gore described so well a little while ago in his book "The Assault on Reason" politicians gathering all the data and advice of experts, making rational analysis and choosing the best course of action went out of the window some time ago.