Posted on 12/31/2009 5:49:19 AM PST by reaganaut1
Edited on 12/31/2009 6:35:19 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
If this was not coming from the Obama Admin, I’d say it would make sense.
See if a similar situation happened to compare and contrast whatever breakdown in security procedures allowed it to happen. Target the problem and correct it.
HOWEVER - this is being done in an attempt to place the blame for their failures squarely on Bush’s shoulders so once again Obama won’t have to take any responsibility.
Yesterday there was an article titled “Obama takes the heat Bush did not” comparing the latest incident to the Richard Reid shoe bomber. I was wondering why that was brought up because it seemed to be unrelated, unimportant, and out of nowhere. So, now it appears that was a story planted in a willing press by Obama officials.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418050/posts
Guess we’ll have to hang these people once the Obama Regime grinds to a halt.
Cheney and Congressional Leaders React to Obama’s National Security Policy
by Connie Hair
Posted 12/31/2009 ET
The devastating impact of the Obama administration’s dismantling of America’s national security and intelligence capabilities has once again come home to roost. We’ve had three terrorist attacks on American soil in Obama’s first 11 months in office. Thankfully we were spared a catastrophic outcome on Christmas Day.
Obama and his coven of leftist lawyers seek to criminalize the war against radical Islamist terrorists, treating their institutional demise as a matter best suited to the federal courts. Al Qaeda operatives appear unimpressed with the presidential threats of federal prosecution, having stepped up their efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and in the United States.
America learned a costly lesson on September 11, 2001. Or at least most of us did. The Obama administration gives every appearance of ignoring that particular historical lesson.
It was not by mere chance that the Bush administration kept this country relatively free from terrorist attack in the wake of 9-11, after the anthrax attacks, the beltway snipers and the shooting at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport. Taking the fight to the terrorists took its toll on al Qaeda.
excerpt
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35038
Just a thought: Weren’t the chemicals in the underwear wrapped in aluminum foil? In the past each time I’ve passed through a metal screener it goes off, triggered by the underwires....Wonder if he even went through a metal detector......alot more metal than in my underwear....Or was the manual wand even used if it went off?
Was someone(s) at an airport compliant with getting him on board and in that particular seat?
My thoughts exactly-----he bought a one-way ticket with cash and checked no luggage — a combination that experts say should be a red flag.
And no one tagged him as a potential risk?
IIRC, his seats were booked through at his first boarding in Lago, Nigeria. The important seat was the Amsterdam to Detriot flight: window seat A, row 19, over the fuel tank.
The Haskell’s are the couple from Detriot who continue to claim that a well dressed Indian man vouched for the Nigerian who didn’t have a passport in Amsterdam, stating “he’s from the Sudan and we do this all the time.”
Apparently, he was then allowed to board the flight to Detroit without any security screening.
Seems to me, the passport mystery can be easily cleared-up. Either he had one on him when he was arrested and removed from the airplane or he didn’t.
Where would he have walked through a metal detector? If two little wires of my underwire set the machines off in airport and in courthouse security, the aluminum foil around the bomb surely would have set it off. How did he manage not to walk though at least one metal detector?
I don’t think he had too. Have you seen the thread titled “his last phone call?” If not, I will ping you right now. It details his travels.
*bookmark*
"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."
"This White House doesn't view the Northwest [Airlines] failure as one of national security, it's a political issue," says the White House source. "That's why Axelrod and Emanuel are driving the issue."
Thanks for posting the excerpt of this very good article.
I followed your link to read the rest, and I liked it so much I posted it as its own thread.
I don’t think they are terrified. I think they are very much FOR the Obama administration.
I last saw them just before the 2008 election and they didn’t have one negative/comic or interesting thing to say about Obama. The only thing they were interested in was smearing GWBush and his administration.
Just my opinion.
I don’t think they are terrified. I think they are very much FOR the Obama administration.
I last saw them just before the 2008 election and they didn’t have one negative/comic or interesting thing to say about Obama. The only thing they were interested in was smearing GWBush and his administration.
Just my opinion.
Nope she did her job very well. She was to protect the country from those all pervasive super violent right wing terrorists. I feel safe knowing that I’m safe from me.
“I don’t think they are terrified. I think they are very much FOR the Obama administration.”
That is even MORE sad. They used to be equal opportunity satirists,
No more, huh?
>> Grasping at straws.
“But honey, your ex-husband made the same mistakes...”
????
I don’t have an ex, and since when am I your “honey”?
Oh well.
Quoting metaphorically.
The point was to illustrate the absurdity of comparing one’s faults to the “bad guy”.
Nothing personal intended - sorry.
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