News Truck driving school giving CDL's to Islamics

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The discussion centers on concerns regarding the NSA's $50 billion annual budget for information gathering, particularly in light of a Missouri truck driving school that allegedly issued commercial driver's licenses to individuals with fake IDs, many of whom had Middle Eastern names. The situation raises questions about the effectiveness of intelligence agencies in preventing potential threats, especially given that a significant number of those who obtained licenses have since left the area. Critics highlight the need for better oversight and accountability in the licensing process, as well as the implications of racial profiling in the discussion. Some participants challenge the validity of claims regarding the NSA's budget and the assumptions made about the individuals involved, emphasizing the importance of evidence and avoiding prejudiced conclusions.
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The NSA is spending $50 billion per year on information gathering and they apparently missed this. The FBI only stopped it recently.

A truck driving school in Missouri, a school run by the public school system no less, was giving training and helping to provide commercial drivers licenses to people with fake ID's. Of those who obtained licenses, there was a large number of Middle eastern names. We are talking 18 wheelers and tanker trucks here.

We have to do better than this, many of those who were given licenses are long gone from the area. (according to my local news last night.)

This link has a good video clip
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/02/muslims_dominat.html

About 520 people who did not train at the school took the test there from May 2004 through December 2005. More than 300 of them, or about 60 percent, had names that could be Middle Eastern in origin.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/2/16/225755.shtml

"They're just names that you would question as to how come there were so many people of those origins, because in the area we don't have that many Middle Eastern people," Eslinger said. Records obtained from the school by The Associated Press under Missouri's open records law showed a high percentage of surnames such as Ali, Fatah, Mohamed and Yusuf.
 
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i) Do you have real links? Personal pages and newsmax don't cut it for me.

ii) Do you have something more substantial than racial profiling and paranoia?

iii) Where is the $50 billion budget figure from? Even if it seems quite reasonable, I must assume you just made it up since NSA's budgets are classified. Yet you present it as fact.
 
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Edward, the first problem is the title which insinuates that anyone of the Islamic faith is to be suspected of terrorism.

The second is that you are assuming, without evidence, that the people in question belonged to the Islamic faith.

You are also assuming the NSA has no knowledge of this event.

This just doesn't meet the criteria for a valid, unprejudiced discussion.
 
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