Lies are catching up with them ... cannot say it worked (but didn’t) and blame Bush at the same time.
Napolitano On Failed Terror Attempt: “The System Worked”
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MR. ROBERT GIBBS: Well, David, as you mentioned, he’s been briefed very regularly by national security staffers that are with him in Hawaii and has been involved with conference calls to and from the Situation Room since we first learned of this incident on Christmas Day. I’d say the two priorities that the president has right now, first and foremost, ensuring the safety and security of the American people and doing everything that we can and continue to do everything that we can to make sure that that’s happening. And secondly, David, he’s asked for two different reviews to be conducted, which you heard Secretary Napolitano mention. First, digging into this listing—the listing procedures that she talked about, figuring out if the information that the U.S. government had was used properly. But also, to go back and look at the protocols for how listing is done that, as the secretary mentioned, in some cases there are several years old, and ensure that we’re using all the information that we have properly. She mentioned a list of 550,000 people. There’s a smaller list of 400,000 people of which this Selectee list that you mentioned, and the No Fly list, are drawn from. Those two lists encompass about 18,000 people. So you can see there are a series of database universes that list people that are of some concern to several agencies across the government. We want to ensure that information sharing is always happening as it should. And I think secondly, a review to ensure and figure out why a, an individual with the chemical explosive that he had on him could get onto an airliner in Amsterdam and fly into this country. So a listing review and a detection capabilities review so that we can look, going forward, about what has happened now in the past.
British newspaper says he was denied reentry into GB after his father turned him in.