Posted on 02/05/2016 1:28:52 PM PST by aimhigh
Amid the chaos of the 2009 holiday travel season, jihadists planned to slaughter 290 innocent travelers on a Christmas Day flight from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan. Twenty-three-year old Nigerian Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab intended to detonate Northwest Airlines Flight 253, but the explosives in his underwear malfunctioned and brave passengers subdued him until he could be arrested. The graphic and traumatic defeat they planned for the United States failed, that time.
Following the attempted attack, President Obama threw the intelligence community under the bus for its failure to âconnect the dots.â He said, âthis was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had.â
Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused. His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw materialâthe actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.
Just before that Christmas Day attack, in early November 2009, I was ordered by my superiors at the Department of Homeland Security to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). These types of records are the basis for any ability to âconnect dots.â
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Meanwhile:
Google to redirect “extremist searches” (as defined by them)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3393402/posts
U.S. Eyes Ways To Toughen Fight Against Domestic Extremists (as defined by the left)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3393239/posts
Hoe does the word TREASON apply to this?
The GOP is complicit in the treason which
continues every day, every hour.
ISIS is in the building.
The enemy is in the gate and at the guard post.
Were you trying to post to the top post?
Paul Ryan will be assigning a Special Investigator soon to look into this serious abuse of the system before there is a terrorist attack and deaths. /sarc
There are many traitors in our midst...especially in the Fed government.
bumpus maximus
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