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Obama Admin Debated Whether to Tell Public 'System Failed' in Christmas Terror Attack
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 | Kristinn

Posted on 12/29/2009 9:02:40 AM PST by kristinn

File this under: Yes, they really think we're that dumb.

The Obama administration spent Christmas weekend in an internal debate over whether to tell the American people the government failed to protect airline passengers in the wake of the terror attack on Northwest Airlines flight 253, according to the Wall Street Journal.

That explains the stupifying message by Obama spokespeople on Sunday that the 'system worked'.

The statement followed three days in which the White House had delegated public responses to subordinates. Officials debated over the weekend whether to state publicly that the security system had failed, according to a senior counterterrorism official.

The dilemma was on display Monday when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appeared to backpedal from televised comments over the weekend in which she declared that, once the attack happened, "the system worked." Ms. Napolitano conceded Monday that the system didn't work in allowing a terrorist onboard the plane. She said her earlier comments were taken out of context.

Also on Sunday, White House Press Secretary repeated the initial administration line on CBS News' Face the Nation:

I do think, though, that, in many ways, this system has worked. We just have to continue to keep refining it and stay ahead of what terrorists are trying to do.

Yes, Mr. and Mrs. America, they really think we're that dumb. Yet, it is the best and the brightest populating the Obama administration who are dumb enough to think that they could tell the American people "the system worked" and get away with it.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bhochristmas; flight253; nationalsecurityfail; obama
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To: jakota

The Emporer has no clothes and the rest of us will be naked before boarding flights soon.


21 posted on 12/29/2009 9:15:45 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: kristinn

“They are pathetic and they are liars.”

The sunbathing communist Kenyan lizard king and his minions think that whoever controls the narrative wins.

The system worked thing was too far fetched to become the narrative.


22 posted on 12/29/2009 9:16:38 AM PST by y6162 (uish..)
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To: blam

re: Wow...what contempt for us

Amen! And that’s the most galling thing about this bunch. They lie, they know they lie, we know they lie and they know we know they lie, but it doesn’t matter to them.

IMHO, it’s a matter of a total lack of respect for us and what who we are or what we believe.


23 posted on 12/29/2009 9:17:40 AM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: kristinn
Just think of the billions in TARP Slush Money that could be doled around in new "feel-good" security measures...

Bush gave us the TSA and pat-downs for grandma and nuns.

Maybe Obama could give us... a ban on hate-filled Talk Radio that incites the "enemy."

24 posted on 12/29/2009 9:18:59 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: kristinn
"...Officials debated over the weekend whether to state publicly that the security system had failed..."

Soooo...if they DON'T say it failed...it DIDN'T?

25 posted on 12/29/2009 9:20:44 AM PST by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: Nachum

ping


26 posted on 12/29/2009 9:22:07 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Nachum

ping


27 posted on 12/29/2009 9:22:08 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: SlowBoat407

Maybe you should Photoshop TOTUS in there...


28 posted on 12/29/2009 9:22:34 AM PST by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: kristinn

“File this under: Yes, they really think we’re that dumb.”

Well, “we” did vote for him, didn’t we?...


29 posted on 12/29/2009 9:24:28 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 342 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: muawiyah

These thugs are debating what the truth is and what its impact would be on the 0. The value of the truth is how much it helps 0.


30 posted on 12/29/2009 9:24:52 AM PST by omega4179 (Marco2010)
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To: kristinn; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; ...
Yes, Mr. and Mrs. America, they really think we're that dumb. Yet, it is the best and the brightest populating the Obama administration who are dumb enough to think that they could tell the American people "the system worked" and get away with it.

Spot on, kristinn. Thanks for this thread...

31 posted on 12/29/2009 9:27:39 AM PST by nutmeg (Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin agree: NO third parties! Take back the GOP)
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To: EagleUSA

Even posters at DU are calling Obama a failure. People are waking up!


32 posted on 12/29/2009 9:27:51 AM PST by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messiah. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: kristinn
Yes, Mr. and Mrs. America, they really think we're that dumb.

Well, FWIW America did elect this Bozo president and America did elect the current Congress.

33 posted on 12/29/2009 9:30:23 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: kristinn

The audacity of condescension.


34 posted on 12/29/2009 9:33:22 AM PST by LikeLight (FReepin tweetz @StephenLBloom)
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To: kristinn

They DEBATED this question?

What a picture it brings to mind...sitting around..Rahm, Axelrod, Gibbs and who knows who else..

..should we tell em the truth?

.. Nah..tell them- after all- no one was killed- so we’re good, right?

.. How about we tell them an attempt was made, sure, but look, it ws no big deal really- even the president knows that- he won’t mention it for trhee days. By avoiding it- people will realize it’s not important, right?

Obama is famous for trying to not take a position on anything- just offer rehtoric. So this time he decides - not to decide- again. It’s extraordinary when you consider the devotion being given by so many on the front lines of the WAR ON TERROR. The contrast simply could not be greater.


35 posted on 12/29/2009 9:36:31 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: y6162

” The sunbathing communist Kenyan lizard king ..”

LOL !
I should know by now not to drink coffee while scanning FR threads.
I cannot think of a more apt description - a classic.
The Play Boy knows for a fact that 68 million Americans are easily fooled dopes.
But, 60 million of us are not.
Within seconds of hearing about the terror attack-we all knew the system failed.
Barry obviously hasn’t a clue and it is impossible for this moron to make any kind
of quick , executive level decision in a time of crisis .
Other than to prohibit airline passengers from using the bathroom .
It’s his Wee Wee’d Up technique for fighting terrorism.


36 posted on 12/29/2009 9:38:12 AM PST by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: freebird5850

Even posters at DU are calling Obama a failure. People are waking up!
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Good news! You made my day.


37 posted on 12/29/2009 9:39:44 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: kristinn
Sounds fishy to me.


38 posted on 12/29/2009 9:39:58 AM PST by McGruff (We're Going Rogue Baby!)
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To: kristinn

They figured the corrupt media would also agree with them


39 posted on 12/29/2009 9:42:55 AM PST by italianquaker (odumbo is getting all wee wee d up)
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To: sarasota
Starring Janet "Not Politicalo" as Baghdad Bob
40 posted on 12/29/2009 9:50:34 AM PST by mikrofon (From the Nappy-headed HoSec Dep't)
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