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.”
In fact, they probably facilitated the arrest. They flagged him for purchasing with cash and notified DHS.
More at link.
For a guy that knows everything, Obama sure has no answers.
All he has is excuses.
D’oh! What was I thinking?
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
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How did he buy a ticket with cash? I thought that cash sales of
airline tickets were stopped after 9/11.
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I don’t think it was ever stopped.
But it is suppossed to raise a flag like “this is someone carrying
drugs or dirty money!!!”
Ignorant of this sort of situation, in the mid-1990s, I bought a
couple of one-ways from fly-over country to California.
Since then, when I fly, it’s about a 75 percent chance I’ll get the
“would you mind if we did a bit more of inspection on you?”.
I guess I fit a profile:
caucasian
middle-aged
male
no criminal records or convictions
dressed in decent attire
IIRC, Mr. Mohammed Atta and his buddy arrived late at the airport
(Portland Maine?)on 9-11 and were RUSH through to get them on their plane.
Me, they would have laughed at me and say “sorry, you’ve missed your flight”.
Politically-correct Bravo Sierra.
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See, the system worked.
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I’m sure Janet Napolitano was on top of the case.
Even before the terrorist thought of making the SUV bomb.
(/sarc)
I am getting the feeling that there were two factions of our government fighting each other—Obama and his pals trying to let their guy get away, and patriotic law-enforcement trying to catch him.
Uh the Airline dropped the ball slick? Your the one in charge Zero and that says it all!!!!
ANY Muslim (citizen or not) buying a ticket with cash at ANY airport (let alone one in the SAME city) shortly after a failed WMD attack, should be DENIED. Plain and simple.
The mac daddy administration of moronic plantation slaves have solved another major problem, “It was someone else’s fault not ours”.
The problem is TSA. FIRST: The TSA should be shut down, send all the people out to the parking lot and call each one in only as needed. After 48 hours, if they are not called, let them find another job. TWO: Get some people in TSA who are REAL security professionals, not airline regulators/bureaucrats. THREE; get the union out of TSA entirely. Security work should not be unionized.
Interesting. Link or source please?
At Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, Muslims have infiltrated the TSA security apparatus to the point that almost every TSA employee watching the “exit only” doors is a Muslim.
Do you see anything that might be a possible concern here?
Of course. White, conservative, single issue people, especially Tea Partiers, are the real danger for DHS.
I wonder if it was a Warrantless wire tap?
...did ABC ask the same question when the Fruit of Kaboom bomber flew one way,paid cash,no luggage,with his father warning US officials for months before hand?
really?
Thanks for the info. 1 of the few really rational posts.
We can’t blame Uhbama for everything, or we’ll be called on the carpet for everything.
how do you think he ever got elected or listen to, as a street agitator? What’s his excuse for having 6 SS cards?
One from Conn. where he has never lived? So many answers to the wrong questions. If you can’t tell the truth, dazzle them with BULLS*IT*
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