Posted on 05/13/2010 8:03:57 PM PDT by kristinn
Three months before the Times Square terror bombing by a Pakistani-American with ties to terrorists in Pakistan, the Obama administration knew the style of attack, the type of explosives to be used and when the attack would come, yet when the attack happened the administration played dumb with its initial reaction being to downplay the attack as an unsophisticated "one-off" that was a "potential" terror attack.
On February 10, I wrote an article at FR based on Vice President Joe Biden's comments about coming terror attacks on the U.S. that were broadcast later that day on CNN's Larry King Live.
King mentioned to Biden that U.S. intelligence chiefs had recently told Sen. Diane Feinstein that terror attacks on the U.S. mainland in the next few months were "certain," prompting Biden to describe the coming attacks as being by lone attackers with "indigenous" explosives.
The very next morning after the Times Square attack, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano downplayed the terror attack as a "one-off" and not "very sophisticated" even though it was exactly the type of attack that President Obama was warned of by his intelligence chiefs.
TAPPER...this attempted attack resembles car bomb attempts in London and Scotland in 2007. How concerned are you that this is not an isolated incident?
NAPOLITANO: Well, right now, we have no evidence that it is anything other than a one-off, but we are alerting state, local officials around the country, letting them know what is going on...
Here's what was said on CNN three months before:
KING: Terror -- last week on terrorism, the heads of the major U.S. intelligence agencies told Dianne Feinstein that another attempted terrorist attack on the United States is coming certain in the next few months.
BIDEN: Well...
KING: What do you make of that?
BIDEN: Well, look, let me put it this way. The idea of there being a massive attack in the United States like 9/11 is unlikely, in my view.
But if you see what's happening, particularly with al Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula, they have decided to move in the direction of much more small bore but devastatingly frightening attacks.
KING: Detroit?
BIDEN: Detroit. But I think what you're seeing morphing here -- and it's a concern to us -- is you'll see the -- the concern relates to somebody like a shoe bomber or the underpants bomber, the Christmas attack or someone just strapping a backpack on them with weapons that are indigenous and blowing up, you know, walking into (INAUDIBLE)...
KING: So that's going to happen?
BIDEN: Well, I -- I think there are going to be an attempts. I hope we've been -- I've been really impressed. As I said, I've been here for eight presidents. I used to be in the Intelligence Committee. I was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. It's something I spent my professional life doing. I've been really impressed with the success we've had, building on the last administration, in dealing with these.
Well, Mr. Vice President, many Americans are not impressed since the Obama administration has allowed four terrorist attacks on American soil within the past year. It is especially unimpressive that the administration missed it when the Times Square bomber was on the terrorist radar and was getting training and funding in Pakistan.
The bottom line is President Obama knew this type of attack was coming and was too busy partying and golfing to stop it.
That POS has been there for 8 PRESIDENTS????? OMG!! TERM LIMITS!!
"Never waste a good crises."
I don't think business is what stopped him. Imagine what the Oboma administration could do with a crises like this. They could use it for everything it's worth. So far, the first thing they always assume is that it's a white guy and possibly someone angry about Obomas policies, i.e., a tea party or militia "terrorist.". Second, every attack so far was stopped by citizens protecting themselves. The administration let everyone one of them slip through.
They're already going green and talking massive tax increases again from the oil spill. I think I know exactly why they fuddled so long before "noticing" there was an oil problem (11 days???) - They needed the spill to get as bad as possible, because it would help them politically. Anyone else would have been there the same day.
“I wouldn’t be surprized if Obama staged this himself.”
Well, I woudn’t either. But, in fact, I am wondering...if this Administration is so hell bent on collapsing our country from within in order to usher in socialism (or worse), and, if they are doing it under the guise of all things ‘environmental’,...if he then isn’t, dare I say, responsible for the oil rig explosion. What all would they have to gain by not letting such a “crisis go to waste”?
With all due respect to a fellow Freeper, there is no need here for this kind of comment. Don't have to sink to the depths of the KOokS and the DUmmies.
The Pres__ent and his spouse (who fancies herself a public spokeswoman)? Sure. The children? We should be above that, just as the other side *should've* been about the Bush girls, but weren't.
You do realize that Kristin is basically a representative for/of FR?
I seond the motion- there wasn’t much interest on the part of the US government in getting to this guy— also, the M.O. was not the typical jihadi suicide attack— this guy SAVED himself and then bought a ticket to Dubai. That and the fact that after the FBI left his apartment and Entertainment Tonight found his student records and student Visa in the TRASH outside his apartment made me wonder about whether it was an “inside” job that failed.
Do you have that link? Or know the keywords? I’d like to paste that on my FB today...
Never mind. Found it!
Re:
More Evidence Team Obama Stopped Shahzad Monitoring Begun Under Bush-Clinton
Obama is going to get us hit hard again.
Tell me, in concise point form if you can, exactly what Mr. Obama, sitting in his swivel tilter at his desk, could do to physically stop a nutjob from driving into NYC in a van full of explosives and parking anywhere they please?
Search every car on the bridges and toll booths? Install thousands of cameras with thousands of mandarins watching each monitor? Police staking out every parked car? Paid informants on every street corner? Beware of what you are asking....I think thwarting this brand of terrorism is, sadly, impossible, without encroaching our freedoms.
Obama projects weakness.
I did not know that until some freepers mailed me, i presumed it was a vanity post in breaking news...My bad ..;>(
Barry plays because he’s still a kid. But he is the most dangerous kid to ever soil the Oval Office, because he really believes humans are destroying the planet and his cabal of enviro wackos must save humanity from itself by destroying civilization as we know it. ... And he’s succeeding beyond even his wildest dreams.
Have you noticed that the terror warning is stuck at Yellow?
All these people in time square never got alerted.
If my kids get hit by a one-off white tea-bagging pakistani in his 40’s with a sub prime issue, There will be hell to pay.
As I said earlier on this thread, Obama could act like he gives a damn. He knew an attack was coming. Was the terror alert level raised? No. Was there an all hands on deck attitude emanating from the Oval Office? No. There’s a reason there were no attacks on the U.S. mainland after 2001 until Obama took office. The previous president gave a damn.
me either
Knock it off!
he LIED! Obama LIED! G.D.O. That’s in the Bible. GDO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO.
The terror alert was never raised.
We and our Kids are Sitting Ducks.
If anyone gets hurt next time, the fury of hell is going to be unleashed on the white one-off t-baggers with sub-prime issues. I would hate to be one of them.... and why do these t-baggers want to kill us?
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