These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that clacks and vibrates about in a closed circle forever. A reflex machine, like an ant. Repeating his las...