The state of US intelligence …

Time Magazine has published a feature on the US Homeland Security department’s “Highway Watch” scheme, in which professional drivers are being trained to inform the department of “suspicious” things they see on the highway via a toll-free number to a secret location: people taking pictures of bridges, people in clothing inappropriate for the weather, that sort of thing. The people who turned up at this meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas, walked in off the street without preregistering, and despite claims that volunteers must have clear records, the records are not vetted with by the trucking associations. Two of the volunteers claimed that it was easy to spot “Islamics” by their turbans, and the programme failed to point out that nearly all of the people who wear turbans in the USA are Sikhs, not Muslims, and that a Sikh truck driver was shot in a hate incident in Arizona last year. (Hat tip: CAIR)