President Barack Obama, right, waves on Pyramid Rock beach on Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. The Obamas are in Hawaii for the holidays. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Posted on 12/26/2009 8:33:09 PM PST by kristinn
My apologies, the only source posting the story is the Gannett-owned Honolulu Advertiser, so click this link to read Baker's pool report for now. The headline says it all, though.
A Reuters reporter blogged this blurb about Obama's day:
Obama finished golf, made quick stop at beach on marine base to look at postcard scenery, did not go in water
President Barack Obama, right, waves on Pyramid Rock beach on Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. The Obamas are in Hawaii for the holidays. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
What terrorist attack? It's good to be the king!
The White House messaging on the Flight 253 affair stands in stark contrast to its handling of the massacre at Ft. Hood, Texas in which Obama, on the day after the killings, cautioned the public against “jumping to conclusions” about the murders of 13 people, and then, a day later, declared that “we cannot fully know” accused killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s motives. Now, the administration is openly using the T-word.
But it appears the White House’s press outreach has been more extensive than its outreach to actual officials in the government. “They’re keeping information very tight, in terms of not giving it to Congress,” says Republican Rep. Peter King, who has been on television frequently in the hours since the incident. “There are not too many details coming out.”
In his appearances, King, the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, has been described as having been “briefed” on the issue. It turns out he has been briefed, but not by the administration. “When I say ‘briefing,’ these are people on my staff who are in contact with people in the government agencies,” King says. So far, King has had just one contact with the administration: a phone call from Homeland Security deputy secretary Jane Holl Lute, who told him about airport security measures. Beyond that, nothing. “As far as all the other details I’ve gotten, they came from sources that we have in the government,” King says. “I understand the Democrats are getting the same treatment, so it’s not a partisan thing.
You are FAR from being alone......
Well....geee....did he take a dump today too?
A Tempest in a Teacup? asks Howard Kurtz. “Twitter is all over Northwest Airlines attack, holiday or not. Good job. If the airline attack had worked, it would dominate for weeks. Since the passengers foiled it, I wonder if it will be a 24-hour story.”
Pattern???
Yep! everytime gas is exhaled from that saucer lipped gargantuan, Soupy Sales Like Mouth!!
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Cant Be! Looks too attractive to be the “BEAST!”
AMAZING HOW THERE IS AN ARMY OFJOURNALISTS OUT THERE!! and yet NOTHING! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IS BEING REPORTED!!
OBOZO MUST BE A REAL DOG!
U.S. knew of man in attack on airliner
Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., chairwoman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee, said there were “strong suggestions of a Yemen-al-Qaida connection and an intent to blow up the plane over U.S. airspace.”
http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/us-knew-of-man-in-attack-on-airliner/1061470
According to the affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, a preliminary analysis of the device showed it contained PETN, a high explosive also known as pentaerythritol, the same material convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid used when he tried to destroy a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001 with explosives hidden in his shoes.
Officials said it was possible that had the chemical mixture detonated, it might have brought down the aircraft.
Abdulmutallab’s name was not unknown to U.S. authorities. An official briefed on the attack told the New York Times that the United States has known for at least two years that Abdulmutallab could have terrorist ties. His name was inserted last month into the U.S. intelligence community’s central repository of information on known or suspected international terrorists after his father, a prominent Nigerian banker, told officials at the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria that he was concerned about his son’s increasingly extremist religious views.
Abdulmutallab was granted a two-year visa, which is still valid, the official said. He had traveled to the United States once before, to Houston in August 2008.
The suspect smiled when he was wheeled into the hospital conference room. He had a bandage on his left thumb and right wrist, and part of the skin on the thumb was burned off.
The judge sat at the far end of a 10-foot table, the suspect at the other end.
Borman asked the defendant if he was pronouncing his name correctly. Abdulmutallab responded, in English. “Yes, that’s fine.” The judge asked him if he understood the charges against him. He responded in English: “Yes, I do.”
In Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the suspect’s father, told the Associated Press, “I believe he might have been to Yemen, but we are investigating to determine that.”
The father was chairman of First Bank of Nigeria from 1999 through this month. The banker said his son is a former university student in London but had left Britain to travel abroad.
Abdulmutallab attended one of West Africa’s best schools, the British School of Lome in Togo. After high school, he went to Britain to study mechanical engineering.
It was while still in high school that he began preaching to fellow students about Islam, according to a report in ThisDay, a Nigerian newspaper.
Why doesn’t he vacation in Chicago? He really doesn’t have ties to Hawaii anymore. What keeps him out of Chicago, where he owns his house.
Al, you are in top form tonite.
Well done :)
What?
“ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IS BEING REPORTED!!”
That’s “state-run media” for you, comrade! Just wait until “state-run medicine”!/s;)
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