Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain said Sunday that “targeted identification” of terror suspects is not the same as racial profiling.
“I’m not trying to identify a particular religion, a particular color, a particular ethnicity. I’m simply saying we should not be afraid to identify those characteristics that have been consistent in people who have tried to hurt this country,” Mr. Cain, a former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, told CNN’s Candy Crowley.
At last week’s GOP debate, Mr. Cain suggested that “targeted identification” would improve security on airlines, but he pushed back at the notion that such a policy could be misused.
“You are trying to pull me into the rhetoric that gets people in trouble, and what I’m trying to do is not be drawn into that,” Mr. Cain said. “I don’t see it as racial profiling … it’s a deliberate approach to figure out patterns associated with people who have tried to kill us.”
Mr. Cain, from Georgia, dismissed the debate in Washington over extending unemployment benefits or the payroll tax cut as “nibbling around the ediges.”
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