Posted on 12/27/2009 4:53:32 PM PST by pissant
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) said Sunday that it is fair to blame the Obama administration for the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit on Christmas Day.
Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Select Intelligence Committee said that the administration has not taken the threat of terrorist threats on the U.S. seriously.
Asked by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace if it is fair to blame the Obama administration for the attacks, the Michigan Republican replied ""Yeah, I think it really is."
Hoekstra said that increased domestic threats have made themselves more evidence this year, with this attack and the Fort Hood shootings, but said that the Obama administration is trying to "downplay" the threat.
"The Obama administration came in and said we're not going to use the word terrorism anymore, we're going to call it man made disasters, trying to, I think, downplay the threat from terrorism," he said. "In reality, it's getting much more complex."
Hoekstra on Friday said that the White House needs to "connect the dots" that the attacks are an indication that al Qaeda is beginning to plan more widespread attacks on the United States.
Early on U.S. official identified the attack as an act of terrorism but said that the alleged attacker, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, appeared to have acted alone. Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) called him "self-radicalized" but that he may have reached out to Al Qaeda elements in Yemen.
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These onslaught of attacks in 2009 during King Obama’s
“watch” (encouragement of terrorists) are the TIP OF
THE ICEBERG.
The saddest part is that Hoekstra can’t be president either.
Obviously planned during the Bush administration so it’s Bush’s fault .... /sarc
Why not? Is he Dutch? (Didn’t think too much about a Dutch surname on a Michigander.)
The impostor is also radicalized...if others can’t see that...then....look a little closer at his policies...
I believe they are testing the system.
Hanging is a bit tough. Not too many walk away from it.
/ s
Well seems like Hoekstra gets it. Meanwhile Barry Nero Obama is off fiddling in Hawaii. It’s going to be a loooooong 3 more years.
He was born a few months before his parents immigrated to the USA from Holland.
You are Right. They need to start profiling these Moslem Rats!
How many hours after that Tuesday morning of 9-11 had passed before we first heard complaints about “not connecting the dots.”
any particular order of events...
BTW, Peter is his middle name. His first name is Cornelius and I can’t help but think of Yukon Cornelius.
Keep speaking out and point out that Barry boy is on vacation with every other breath.
Maybe send him to Haiti to make a living...or some other hell hole like Yemen!
Thanks. It is a pity! I’d be proud to vote for a right-thinking Michigander for President.
I think he would be a fine governor.
Obummer doesn`t care if Americans live or die. Americans are on his low-priority list. We come second after Palm trees.
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