Posted on 01/01/2010 9:28:16 AM PST by opentalk
What was the 9-11 Commission for anyway? Recommendations put forth just “shelved.”
Red flags ignored:
Father warned that son had become radical; information given to U.S. Consulate in Nigeria.
Undies bomber bought ticket with cash.
Undies bomber had NO LUGGAGE.
Undies bomber had no passport. BUT had US VISA. HOW did he get a VISA without a passsport?
Has anyone even looked into the “well dressed man” that accompanied the undies bomber and assisted him getting on the plane in Amsterdam?
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Now the White House is in FULL damage control mode trying to cover up their political incompetence on a major American security issue.
How inept is our current Administration?
The Washington Prowler at American Spectator writes:
On December 26, two days after Nigerian Omar Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use underwear packed with plastic explosives to blow up the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight he was on, and as it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its most embarrassing failure in the area of national security, senior Obama White House aides, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and new White House counsel Robert Bauer, ordered staff to begin researching similar breakdowns — if any — from the Bush Administration.
“The idea was that we’d show that the Bush Administration had had far worse missteps than we ever could,” says a staffer in the counsel’s office. “We were told that classified material involving anything related to al Qaeda operating in Yemen or Nigeria was fair game and that we’d declassify it if necessary.”
...Is there a coverup or “spin” on the fact there were TWO possible terrorists on the same plane? Has the FBI been told to cover up this fact? If so by WHOM?
It is now the year 2010. The “spin” of the White House needs to stop pushing the fault of any incident onto either Bush or Clinton. They need to take accountability for their own actions or inactions.
With David Axelrod sitting in on security briefings as to the “way” to spin any news coming out of the White House just proves the lack of confidence in themselves over handling a security breach/issue.
The Apologizer in Chief has just emboldened the terrorsits throughout the world. By treating the undies bomber as a common criminal instead of sending him DIRECTLY to Gitmo for interrogation, AS A TERRORIST, just proves this Administration is inept in every sense of SECURING America.
The “well-dressed man” who talked our young Nigerian friend onto the plane by insisting he was a Sudanese refugee, seems to have disappeared, along with the guy doing a video camcorder recording of the entire airplane trip.
It’s possible they were one and the same person.
If these were two separate people it would probably imply that his older guy ‘handler’ did NOT get on the plane.
In any event, ALL THOSE WHO WITNESSED THE ON-PLANE VIDEOTAPING should be deposed, and everyone ON the plane should (or SHOULD HAVE) been brought together for their stories, and asked to identify the videotaper, whoever and wherever he is. If NONE of this has happened , this makes the entire affair even more disturbing, and even in the pathetic appraisal of Janet Napolitano, means the “system did NOT work!” Anyone know of any followup on this, or is this too assumed NOT to be for popular consumption?
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