Posted on 01/06/2010 8:21:34 PM PST by Shellybenoit
There is that old saying, "almost doesn't count, except in horse shoes." It certainly doesn't count when trying to catch a terrorist with a bomb attached to his a private parts, designed to explode an airplane to smithereens over a major city. Today the LA Times discovered that the US learned some new intelligence about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab right after his plane took off from Amsterdam. Government Officials were going to interviewing the terrorist as soon as he landed in Detroit.
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
Idiots.
Incompetent idiots.
"The public isn't aware how many people are allowed to travel through the U.S. who are linked, who intersect with bad guys or alleged bad guys," a national security official said. "It makes sense from an intelligence perspective. If they are not considered dangerous, it provides intelligence on where they go, who they meet with."
Moreover, the window for identifying a passenger as a potential threat before boarding is limited, according to a senior homeland security official. Although U.S. border enforcement officials have access to passenger data based on reservation lists and use them for preliminary assessments, the in-depth vetting by Customs and Border Protection only begins once the flight manifest has been generated, just a few hours before takeoff, and focuses on potential actions to take at the U.S. border, the official said.
Greeeeeeeaaaaat. So the ‘panty raid’ was ‘up in the air’? Argh!
They were wanting to read him his rights...just in case.
Could the (rumored) man in Amsterdam, wearing the “smart suit,” who facilitated the panty-bomber’s boarding the plane have been a U.S. agent?
The thot plickens.
0bama and the Dems remind me of the old TV show “Hogan’s Heroes”, except 0bama is Col. Klink, Dingy Harry as Schultz, etc
One would think they’d have had someone on-board the flight, just in case...
Just when you think we couldn’t be any stupider, we go and exceed all expectations......
It’s time to retire the brainwashed and braindead.
If DHS or Holder is reading this.... I’m sorry but....
NOBODY BELIEVES YOU.
I don’t buy this for a moment!
They wanted to offer him a beer in exchange for not being mad at us for keeping GITMO open so long.
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