The problem is that the Obama Administration’s Department of Home Land Security botched the vetting of the pre-flight passenger list.
(Let’s not discuss here the poor vetting of the Obama Cabinet members, unless you see it as pertinant.)
In an apparently apologetic spin in behalf of the Obama administration Fox News called Friday’s terrorist activity on a NW flight a “thwarted plot”.
A statement which would tend to make one believe that the Obama Administration had prior knowledge and acted upon that knowledge…which by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ admission they did not.
A less supportive CNN reported what amounted to an admission by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs that the administration had nothing to do with stopping the “a botched terror attack”.
Obviously the Obama administration knew nothing and did nothing to prevent the security breech.
The question that I have is:
Do Americans really need to be subjected to a higher level of pre-flight screening when the problem is that Home Land Security approved, for a foreign government prior to take off a flight with a known terrorist on board, the passenger flight list?
Terror Suspect Wasn’t Considered Threat
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Suspect Not a Threat?
Suspect in thwarted plot to blow up plane not considered a danger despite being in government databases
The alleged Christmas Day terrorist had been in one of the U.S. government’s largest terror databases since November, when his father brought him to the attention of embassy officials in Nigeria. But Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab came to the attention of intelligence officials months before that, according to a U.S. government official involved in the investigation.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581211,00.htm, Sunday, December 27, 2009, 08:39:26 AM PST, FOX NEWS
Obama orders review of flight screenings
December 27, 2009 10:32 a.m. EST
(CNN) — President Obama has ordered a review of security screening processes after Friday’s botched terror attack on a U.S. airliner, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday.
Appearing on the ABC program "This Week" and the NBC program "Meet the Press," Gibbs said Obama is receiving regular briefings by his national security staff on the incident in which a suspect allegedly tried to detonate an explosive device on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, making its final approach to Detroit, Michigan.
The suspect, 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was on a broad watch list of 550,000 names since last month, Gibbs said
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/12/27/airline.attack.security/index.html, Sunday, December 27, 2009, 08:42:37 AM PST, CNN News
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