Posted on 05/04/2010 3:51:06 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
Senior administration officials say that Faisal Shahzad was put on the no fly list on Monday at 12:30 pm ET.
So how was he able to board the Emirates Airlines flight to Dubai?
“It takes a few hours for the airlines system to catch up,” a senior administration official tells ABC news.
Another senior administration official adds that Emirates refreshes their system to update with US intelligence information periodically – but not frequently.
In any case, the first official says that airlines were “within minutes” of Shahzad being put on the no-fly list told to “look at a web-board” and manually check its passenger manifest against the news on the web board.
“That appears to not have happened” the official says. “For whatever reason there was a breakdown at the Emirates level.”
Emirates Airlines provided its locked-in passenger manifest to the Customs and Border Protection agency. The plane at that point can leave. But a CBP official caught Shahzad’s name on the manifest and the plane never left the gate.
“That redundancy is built in,” the official says. “It’s not luck it’s design. It was good work by CBP.”
Former 9/11 Commission vice chair and Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton seems less impressed.
Hamilton reminds ABC News that “the 9/11 commission recommended that you had to have biometric evidence, documentarian evidence of people coming in and exiting” the country. “We’ve done a pretty good job on the first part of it people entering the country. But with regard to those exiting the country we simply have not been able to set up a system to deal with that and it showed in this case.”
Hamilton says “we need to have in this country a system of checking people leaving the country so that we can protect against the very sort of thing that happened here -- or at least almost happened here.”
See, the system worked.
BTW, great tagline.
The airline acted stupidly.
Wow, that doesn't give the data a lot of time to proliferate out to all the other systems, does it?
I bet they run batch jobs to update their systems.
1. USA puts the name on the no-fly list at 12:30PM Monday.
2. Batch job runs at 8:00PM Monday night to update the no-fly database.
3. Batch job runs at 9:00PM to create no-fly-list updates file for transmission to other systems.
4. FTP runs at 10:00PM to transmit no-fly-list updates.
Terrorist boards plane.
5. Tuesday at 8:00PM - foreign systems' batch job runs to receive updates to no-fly-list.
6. Batch job runs at 9:00PM to update no-fly-list database with received updates.
-PJ
LIKE HELL, THEY HAVE!!
Hey, Hamilton, go peddle your moldering tripe in southern AZ, CA, NM and TX.
Good luck with that.
Blame the A-rabs? What happened? Racist anti-semite Obama couldn’t find any random innocent Jews? You just know he looked...
Is that a fact? I haven’t seen any mention of how he got home. How did he explain the missing auto?
Who helped him load the fertilizer into his car?
More people under the bus.
What a bunch of losers.
They LIE.
gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com has the story! He was ONLY stopped because it was the Emirates line that got him, because he ONLY got put on the list AFTER the incident. But this is the Obama media at work...
http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/fix-this-and-fix-this-fast-big-hole-in-our-security-and-thank-you-emirates-airline/
I don’t think they were stopped. But buying a one-way ticket for cash was supposed to raise an immediate flag.
If I were a betting man I would say the skids were greased for this guy to fly on the Baraini airline. The aircraft just didn’t get airborne fast enough. The bad guys were betting that our fighters would not shoot down the airliner. Given the present regime that was a sucker’s bet.
Not only did he buy with cash, he bought a ONE-WAY ticket! Another bells and whistles, red flag alarm!
Accomplice?
Greyhound?
I bought an emergency one way ticket when my mom was stricken and near death. TSA felt me up one side and down the other. They even investigated behind my earlobes....like I could hide anything there. I was in tears before they were done.
But then again, I was probably a victim of profiling. One of those evil, white Christian females...
From what I’ve heard the Feebs lost him. His car was found in the shorterm parking lot, probably by Port Authority cops. There was a time stamp on the parking receipt and the name was matchd to flights leaviing in that time window.The fact isTthe airline and TSA let him on the plane when the whole world was looking for him.TSA belongs to Big Sis.Time for her to show up and take the hit.
It’s Sarah Palin and those horrid teabaggers. THEY DID THIS!
He obviously was returning to the mid-east after being accepted into a post-graduate program where he was to work towards a Master of Terrorist Arts degree.
it’s never their fault is it.
Bush
BP, the airline, not enough Govt regulation for the melt down when infact it was too much Govt
the list is endless
we really are in such a state right now with these idiots in charge, they can’t even say they were wrong
Typical... Its always about him, until something goes wrong then its everyone elses fault. Could there ever be a more divisive figure in Politics then Barrak Hussein Obama?
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