This may have been par for the course in the past, but the threat has moved on some time ago. Most of the 9/11 hijackers, we're talking 2001, were professionals

This may have been par for the course in the past, but the threat has moved on some time ago. Most of the 9/11 hijackers, we're talking 2001, were professionals with advanced technical degrees. Several of them had PhDs. Asking these questions may help with an imagined problem, but I suspect the value is limited in practice. And it being par for the course does not excuse Trump from blame for having his departments use it in an arena where it has been proved ineffective.