Obama Adviser: No Smoking Gun in Airline Bomb Plot (Just a smoking bomb in seat 19A over Detroit)

AP via Houston Chronicle ^ | Sunday, January 3, 2009 | Anne Gearan

[ichabod1]

It’s just stupid. It’s a misuse of the phrase. Smoking Gun refers to a murder when the perp isn’t immediately apparent, not an attempted murder put down by the good yeomen of the Amurrickin Pipple.

[Just A Nobody]

They really think we're that dumb.

It certainly appears to be so.

[DBrow]

“There was no single piece of intelligence that said, ‘this guy is going to get on a plane.’”

Other then, perhaps, applying for a visa in England and being denied, and didn’t he then get a US visa?

Seems our crew can’t even get hindsight correct, and that’s tough because hindsight is the only exact science.

[LomanBill]

>>They really think we're that dumb.

Well, yah...


"The System Worked"

[ichabod1]

But ALLOWING American cities to be nuked is perfectly acceptable.

[Brytani]

We can’t deny this administration has not been good at revisionist history.

We have never been and are not a Christian Nation.
The US has caused only harm in the world, never helping other peoples and nations.
Democrats are the party of equal rights, civil rights, voter rights and freedom.
Democrats were the ones warning about terrorism while Republicans fiddled.
etc etc etc.

The past isn’t science for this group, science fiction maybe.

[ichabod1]

Yes, his MO would predict that he’ll toss a few bodies under the bus come about August, and claim that anything wrong with his first two years was their fault, and to please go ahead and pull that lever straight demorat.

[paulycy]

Whoo... that is one hot dog.

[Just A Nobody]

My daughter and SIL arrived at a small local airport only to find their flight home had been canceled. They had to get back for work so with the airline's help found another flight on a different airline and their tickets were switched for the new flight. They were nearly strip searched and had their luggage ripped apart because the ticket had been purchased the SAME DAY they were flying and though no cash exchanged hands, it was processed that way.

Of course this happened in 2003, but from what I'm reading here procedures have not changed that much. Same day purchase using cash, with or without luggage, still seems to send up a red flag. And I had not reported them three times to authorities as being extremists!

[Laserman]

I saw this interview, and he was a complete weasel, refusing to answer any questions directly, and using mealy-mouthed language that would make Harry Reid blush. Made me angry to listen to him on - where else - CNN!

[livius]

I think you only get a break if you’re a verified Muslim.

[jersey117]

OMG. The bomb was the smoking gun. There were at least 4 red flags that went up between October and Christmas.

[MainFrame65]

==> “Is that something like a flaming a$$hole?” <==

No, that was a secondary indication of malicious intent.

[Just A Nobody]

...just a smoking usurper.
Is that something like a flaming a$$hole?

LOL! HNY, Bry!

[MainFrame65]

==> “...and didn’t he then get a US visa?” <==

Not exactly - he already HAD a US visa, but nobody bothered to check. Hilary Clinton’s fault!

[Just A Nobody]

Clearly! *shaking head*

[Brytani]

Sometime ya just gotta tell it like it is... :-)

Happy New Years Chick!!

[FreeReign]

Translation: It's not our fault unless they send out a videotaped news release declaring their intentions a month before an attack.

Anything else would be profiling, don't you know.

[2harddrive]

What an EFFING Cover-up!