Intelligence chief says it was mistake to reduce no-fly list

The Hill ^ | 01/20/10 | Susan Crabtree

[ricks_place]

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair on Wednesday said he should not have given in to pressure to reduce the passenger no-fly list before the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

“The pressure on the no-fly list was to make them smaller … shame on us for giving in to that pressure,” Blair told the Senate Homeland Security Committee during a Wednesday hearing.

“What is prudent is to put names on just in case and take them off when it’s justified,” he said. “The pressure [before the attempted bombing] was in the other direction. I should not have given in to that pressure.”

[Candor7]

You raise an intersting possibility. One prediction is that Obama will use enhanced interroigation on a conservative politician, before his tenure is over. Rahm Emanual will insist on it. I can hardly wait until that ash can turns our way.

[Dog]

This is worse than we suspected....someone is going to get people killed by playing cutesy.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

All things in time

[rlbedfor]

And who made the call to go Lawyer on the terrorists???!