Plothole 1/15

Yeah, it was a very unrealistic episode to drive home the point that we shouldn't make assumptions based on how people look. A good life lesson, but they could have written a better show to get it across.

What moronic taxi driver would walk through a station with a duffel bag of bomb-making equipment either? If he checked the back why wouldn't he call the cops?

I saw no mention of the following regarding the initial investigation:

The second it turned into a federal investigation regarding an enemy combatant, any and all evidence were handled by DHS. They reference the fact, that they won't get access to further evidence, so the answer was in the episode.

The UK and the US have a similar law when it comes to cases like this, the defense has a really hard time proving innocence. Actually, the UK law even appoints a special barrister by the state, who doesn't work for the defendant. Closed Circuit presented that scenario.

The reason I'm invoking the parallel, as there are a lot of parallels between post-9/11 security laws and British antiterrorism acts from the seventies. In a different case, where they have proven, that lighting a match can give false positive for GSR, in a Homeland case they're just simply content with it being called whatever they suspect it is. Kind of like what happened In the name of the father, a dish washing agent turned into bomb residue.

Enemy combatants don't have habeas corpus, so it was (unfortunately) accurate, how such an investigation goes down. Personally I call it validation as intelligence services are not cops, they don't look at all angles, but the most obvious one.

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