French counterterrorism advisor: Um, the problem isn’t a lack of surveillance powers
The problem was one of processing: the French government had intelligence on the culprits but failed to put it together. It’s a common obstacle in the age of mass metadata collection, when the information flowing in is so vast that it becomes difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
...Monitoring innocent people isn’t the solution. Monitoring the guilty ones is. And every first-world nation already has the tools it needs to keep track of repeat offenders like Abaaoud.
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