Is counterterrorism policy out of step with reality?
At last the experts are starting to agree with what civil libertarians like CLA have been saying for a decade and a half: everything to do with counterring terrorism is massively out of kilter with reality, including the funds and people/material resources allocated, the parliamentary time spent on it, and the massive headlines given to it. In Australia, we literally have had much more important things to worry about since about 2005.