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A more serious than 'fake news' answer to the Warbird Program and the wider US Government not detecting every alien arrival is just alien tech being a lot better than whatever nonesense they've scraped together on Earth. 

Of course I am very happy to rp interactions with Carol being deployed to intercept arrivals, but I'd never want to suggest it was a barrier to anyone's plots.
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I wouldn't really consider it a barrier, but it certainly does feel like a hamper on narratives since theoretically this should have caught Lobo who was making no effort to hide and additionally Kal-El. I know SWORD is obviously responding after the fact, so I guess we'll just have to assume 'reasons' for why there was no proactive intervention.