By Ben Kamisar
Carly Fiorina called for more robust private sector involvement in the war on terror during Tuesday's GOP presidential debate, knocking government bureaucracy as "woefully behind."
"Why did we mis the Tsarnaev brothers, why did we miss the San Bernardino couple?" the former tech executive asked on CNN, referring to the brothers who launched the 2013 attack at the Boston Marathon and the couple who killed 14 in California last week.
She argued it wasn't because the U.S. stopped collecting telephone metadata — an issue Sens. Marco Rubio
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As an example, she noted that the government looks for threats in databases of known or suspected terrorists, while the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) isn't necessarily looking at people who have a history of radicalization. That underscores the need for law enforcement to be able to check social media, she said, which is something the Department of Homeland Security reportedly did not do ahead of the San Bernardino shootings.
Fiorina made her mark as the head of Hewlett-Packard, one of the largest American technology companies. She also served on a CIA advisory board and advised in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.