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.”
THIS ADMINISTRATION WILL NEVER TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING! THEY WILL ONLY TAKE CREDIT FOR GOOD THINGS THEY HAVEN’T DONE. GET THE SHEPHERD’S CROOK AND PULL THEM OFF THE STAGE. NOW!!!
Great, one of the few ‘friendly’ countries in the middle east and he does this. He’s gonna get us all killed.
He came in on the first wave of obummer's open border policy for islamic red flag countries. Remember obummer relaxed immigration policies for certain islamic countries last year and shahrzad was one of the first that benefitted, and became a naturalized citizen.
*** It took ten good years for my parents to become American citizens in good standing!
For a person who was forclosed on, he sure had a hell of a lot of cash.
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?Gee, I wonder, it's quite a mystery. If we didn't know any better, we might think the Emirates have a hands-off attitude about the comings and goings of terrorists.
Oh, come on now, the talking point is that, “The system worked—FROM DAY ONE!”
“The buck NEVER stops here.” —Barack H. Øbama
That’s true, because its not just one buck, its trillions of bucks.
“Let me be clear.......”
I'm tired of hearing this.
The jet left the gate and was actually on the runway, holding for clearance for takeoff.
There is audio of the radio calls to prove this.
“Soetoro is a blithering MORON.” works in Massachusetts. In the other 49 States it’s “Dumb Ass!”. He couldn’t run a 7-11 store without some help.
Obviously, nobama and his minions are geniuses. They are protecting us so well. We are stupid morons to question them. The media is so advanced above us because they understand that we must not question them. Praise Great nobama!
The plane left the gate! There is audio of the GC talking to the pilot about going back!
I remember the Clinton years- all the controversial stories had boatloads of spin and contradictory stories, a cloud around every issue. Since this WH is full of Clintonistas, it’s not surprising that things would seem similar.
Is it the nothing-can-be-done crowd’s assumption that the fellows who run armies of the ‘undocumented’ from Mexico into America are just kindhearted human smugglers who’d have nothing to do with jihad even if the price was right?
— Mark Steyn
By chance, did that happen in Orlando?
WHO dropped the ball? How’d he pass all the BGs? Is the UAE responsible for THAT too? Or is Barry going to blame Bush for another screwup on Barry’s watch?
mooslimbs don’t like dogs
If the airline dropped the ball, then why do we need the TSA? Seems like they have proved themselves to be useless and unnecessary.
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