Posted on 05/04/2010 3:51:06 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
Senior administration officials say that Faisal Shahzad was put on the no fly list on Monday at 12:30 pm ET.
So how was he able to board the Emirates Airlines flight to Dubai?
“It takes a few hours for the airlines system to catch up,” a senior administration official tells ABC news.
Another senior administration official adds that Emirates refreshes their system to update with US intelligence information periodically – but not frequently.
In any case, the first official says that airlines were “within minutes” of Shahzad being put on the no-fly list told to “look at a web-board” and manually check its passenger manifest against the news on the web board.
“That appears to not have happened” the official says. “For whatever reason there was a breakdown at the Emirates level.”
Emirates Airlines provided its locked-in passenger manifest to the Customs and Border Protection agency. The plane at that point can leave. But a CBP official caught Shahzad’s name on the manifest and the plane never left the gate.
“That redundancy is built in,” the official says. “It’s not luck it’s design. It was good work by CBP.”
Former 9/11 Commission vice chair and Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton seems less impressed.
Hamilton reminds ABC News that “the 9/11 commission recommended that you had to have biometric evidence, documentarian evidence of people coming in and exiting” the country. “We’ve done a pretty good job on the first part of it people entering the country. But with regard to those exiting the country we simply have not been able to set up a system to deal with that and it showed in this case.”
Hamilton says “we need to have in this country a system of checking people leaving the country so that we can protect against the very sort of thing that happened here -- or at least almost happened here.”
"The buck NEVER stops here." --Barack H. Øbama
“I’ll take “Blame Bush” for a thousand, Alex.”
How did he buy a ticket with cash? I thought that cash sales of airline tickets were stopped after 9/11.
Not true. Plane left gate.
Uh, uh, ahem, uh, uh, uh, uh, but, uh, uh, Bush, uh, ahem, and, the, an, uh, Bush, but.......
It’s always someone elses fault. Reminds me of my children ... when they were about 5!
A blatant lie, but it will become a part of the history of this event when Obama pats himself on the back during his next interview.
You can still buy a ticket with cash at the airport, but usually it’s supposed to set off some type of secondary screening procedure.
Since the guy was a US citizen, I’m assuming that he was considered clear to leave.
Any Muslim reappearing after 5 months in an Islamic country is suspect. Any Muslim disappearing for 5 months, a few months after gaining citizenship, should be setting off alarms.
Isn't there supposed to be some process to keep hostiles out of the country?
I say give the CBP official a pat on the back.
1. The muzzies are all in league together. They'd turn him in if it profited them, but not merely because it was the right thing to do. 2. Why blame Emirates Airlines? Why not blame our very own TSA, which is responsible for who clears airport security?
Clearly, neither you nor I understand the value of diversity.
They caught him by intercepting his cell phone transmissions. The TSA needs to be DEFUNDED. A complete waste of tax dollars. Soetoro is a blithering MORON.
another muzzie pc case...like ft hood
How did he get back home to Connecticut after he abandoned the bomb car.
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