Posted on 01/07/2010 1:26:42 PM PST by Starman417
An anonymous State Department employee, talking to The American Spectator about Flight 253 and underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab:
This employee says that despite statements from the Obama Administration, such information [that Abdulmutallab had been banned from Britain] was flagged and given higher priority during the Bush Administration, but that since the changeover "we are encouraged to not create the appearance that we are profiling or targeting Muslims."
If this statement is accurate, it makes Obama directly responsible for Abdulmutallab's success in spiriting a bomb aboard Flight 253, and the statement is easily believable, given STRATFOR's report last June about intelligence agencies being ordered to stop investigating Black Muslims:
Several weeks ago, STRATFOR heard from sources that the FBI and other law enforcement organizations had been ordered to back off of counterterrorism investigations into the activities of Black Muslim converts.
This was just before 23 year old Black Muslim convert Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot two soldiers at an Army recruiting station in Little Rock. The FBI had opened an investigation of Muhammad after he returned from Yemen with a phony Yemeni passport, yet he was apparently off the radar screen when he murdered one soldier and critically wounded another. Obama's "back off" order may well have contributed to Muhammad having a free hand.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
THE SMOKING GUN WAS NOT THE TERRORIST!!! The smoking gun was the Obama and Clinto St Dept and nat’t security team changing the rules of the game....this quote says it all!!!
“I’m not saying that this kind of screw up might not have happened in the Bush Administration,” the State source says, referring to the Christmas Day snafu. “I’m just saying that a number of us were encouraged to have a different mindset about such intel and such individuals, and today, we are encouraged not to have that same mindset.”
“we are encouraged not to have that same mindset. That is why the murderous Dr Hasan was ignored, it is why the pantybomber’s father’s pleas to the CIA were ignored. The Obama Admin has told the people sworn to protect us to have a different, more PC ‘mindset’ regarding muslims.
That is the real story here!!
“”” flagged and given higher priority during the Bush Administration, but that since the changeover “we are encouraged to not create the appearance that we are profiling or targeting Muslims.””””
It seems like Flopping Aces has been pretty accurate in their reporting. If this does have validity, then Obama can talk all he wants, but the reality is that his orders resulted in State Department personnel overlooking the obvious.
We need to keep this on the radar screen.
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