Posted on 12/26/2009 10:30:40 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Rep. Hoekstra: Attempted airline bombing should 'connect the dots' for Obama By Jordan Fabian - 12/26/09 12:46 PM ET
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) Friday said that the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit should "connect the dots" for the Obama administration.
Hoekstra, who is the top Republican on the House Select Intelligence Committee, told the Detroit Free Press that the attacks are an indication that al Qaeda is beginning to plan more widespread attacks on the United States.
“It’s not surprising,” Hoekstra said of the attempt to blow up a Northwest airliner. “People have got to start connecting the dots here and maybe this is the thing that will connect the dots for the Obama administration."
At the time of his remarks, Hoekstra had not been briefed on the attempt Obama administration officials are calling an attempted terrorist attack.
Hoekstra brought up the fatal Fort Hood shootings allegedly perpetrated by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is reportedly linked to a Islamic cleric in Yemen, Hoekstra said this Northwest incident could be “one more indication” that the al Qaeda branch there may be planning more attacks.
The Michigan Republican has frequently been critical of the Obama administration's handling of national security issues.
U.S. officials have said that there is no indication that the Northwest incident was part of a broader operation.
23-year-old Nigerian Umar Faouk Abdul Mutallab was detained by passengers and crew after attempting to light some sort of explosive aboard the plan on Christmas Day.
Two congressional committees have already said they would investigate the attempted bombing next month.
Okay, so they'll blow up the airplane two hours before landing. As Scrooge says, "I'll retire to Bedlam."
blankets will become illegal as well as covering oneself with a coat.
He doesn't need to be. He already has everybody's phone #. The Hill is running interference for their poor, fragile client, Barack Obama.
Don’t confuse apparent level of intelligence, in the abstract, with an agenda-driven exercise of will.
What seems to be blindness may be a choice not to see.
Exactly. The muslims will blow up the airliners over the Atlantic Ocean rather than over NYC, DC, Miami, Detroit and Chicago. Obama and his henchmen do not want any evidence to be be on U.S. soil when his fellow muslims take down their next aircraft.
LLS
LLS
uh-huh.
I’m blinded by it. M I covered? :-}
Only if you are an illegal alien, or you were blinded in the process of committing a terrorist act while within the borders of the US.
As long as a muslim inhabits the WH, we will never be protected from muslim terrorists. It will be up to the American citizens to take care of the matter themselves, if possible.
well gee they haven’t made a movie about it so how could they know!
Maui-Wowie and Maui-Wookie. You would HAVE to do one to do the other.
screw the Nation
Maybe we should insist he "stay" around in Hawaii.
Less than 24 hours later they have already made this determination? They are either totally incompetent or so in the tank for Obozo that they would happily clean his rear with their tongues.
I’m full blooded American... so I guess I’m skrewed. :-)
How would this 1 hour bladder control exercise have prevented this most recent attempted “man mad disaster”? Did the perp get up and go to the bathroom? No indication in reports I’ve seen. What’s the rationale? And, what are they going to do with the folks who absolutely cannot hold in bladder or other contents? And, one other observation... Note how it’s always the poor, oppressed, deprived Muzzies (like this guy - the son of a major banker, Atta - son of a physician, etc) who are hell bent on taking out as many infidels as possible! /s
Gee, THAT'S really turned out to be the case, huh, JANET??
She and her kind are traitorous idiots, and need to be thrown out of the country.
“U.S. officials have said that there is no indication that the Northwest incident was part of a broader operation.”
Could the “broader operation” possibly be jihad by worldwide islam?
Could this be an “indication?”
Obama spends so much time traveling and speaking about health care, global climate change, getting peace prizes, and our national security guard is down, is ineffective.
Just not a priority for them. Make the dems pay the first price next November.
>>Good God.. is our leadership that incompetent?<<
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Does a frog’s ass slam shut when it enters the water?
Heads will roll for that one.
One week of no flying by anybody would serve to bring them (the gubmint goons) to the negotiating table with We The People.
For myself, when the d!psh!t in Minneapolis told me to throw my toothpaste in the trash can ... in that exact instant ... I knew that I had taken my last flight while the incompetents were in charge.
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