A Guide to the Blame Game Following Failed Terror Attack -Washington Wire

wsj blogs ^ | December 30, 2009 | Susan Davis

[opentalk]

Keeping track of who is blaming whom for the failures in U.S. intelligence that allowed Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to almost blow up a U.S. airliner last week can be confusing, so Washington Wire compiled a guide in an attempt to make some sense of the Washington blame game starting with President Barack Obama.

According to the president, it was the whole system that failed. “But what’s also clear is this: When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred. And I consider that totally unacceptable,” Obama said Tuesday from Hawaii, where he is vacationing with his family. The president ordered reviews of both the terrorist watch list and of air travel screening procedures with preliminary findings due by Thursday to figure the “mix of human and systemic failures” that led to the almost-bombing.

..Yet Vice President Dick Cheney is arguing that the buck stops with Obama. In a statement released to Politico, Cheney blasts Obama’s low-key response to the attacks and a pretense that “we are not at war.” Obama “seems to think if he has a low key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war.”

[DBCJR]

Biggest problem: failure to acknowledge a terrorist threat, i.e., War on Terror

[skeeter]

There’s only one person to blame, currently sunning himself in Kailua.

[ntmxx]

And here in lays the problem; we play cops and robbers while they play war; welcome to the surrealistic clown universe.

[centurion316]

No need to search very far, this is clearly the fault of George W. Bush, the most evil man on the face of the Earth and secretly still in charge of the entire United States Government.

I got this directly from David Alexrod, so I know that it has to be true.

[BARLF]

“But what’s also clear is this: When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred. And I consider that totally unacceptable,” Obama said Tuesday from Hawaii, where he is vacationing

The CIA said it did share the info with all Intel. So who lies about this?Whatshisname or CIA?

[AuntB]

HILLARY CLINTON’S AGENCY ISSUED THE TERRORIST’S VISA
by Michael Cutler

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cutler/michael177.htm

I have noted several times that the State Dept. is responsible for issuing many of the BAD visas who turn out to be jihadists or criminals. Remember this number is above those issued by USCIS. All in all, we must be issuing a couple million visas every year.(over 4 million are overstays and will be eligible for AMNESTY)