I'm surprised they haven't used their ole reliable excuse... blame Bush . They could actually make that stick (sorta)
Yesterday the President tried to throw the CIA under the bus. Evidently ;because the dad told the CIA that his kid was becoming radical jihad; In Obama's world that meant they should've connected the dots to the conclusion the kid would stuff explosives down his shorts and attempt mass murder on an inbound flight to the US. Because they did not reach that conclusion he reasons they withheld information that couldve prevented the attack.
But the CIA did their job
exactly as it was drawn up by President Bush and Congress . The CIA is required to pass that info to the National Counter Terrorism Center (NTCT) ;and that's exactly what they did.
http://www.nctc.gov/about_us/about_nctc.html
That is how his name got on a national security TIDE database.
www.nctc.gov/docs/Tide_Fact_Sheet.pdf
And
AFTER that the system broke down.
A prominent banker from a nation that is becoming infected with jihadism rats out his son .Then the son pays cash for a one way ticket to the US at the airport he just arrived at ;and only has some carry on luggage.
One would think that and using common sense profiling would have bells ringing all over the place. Certainly my mom flying would not be a suspect for stuffing explosives in her shorts . But the rules being proposed are so intrusive I doubt she will ever fly again.
As I contend ;that information is useless if all it does is collect dust in a massive database. Reasonable steps can be taken without further inconveniencing travellers to prevent this type of attack. That is ;if we get our PC heads out of the sand.
And what about the State Dept. They were contacted first . Why wasn't his Visa revoked ?
Evita has been awfully silent this week.
For that matter ,major news is coming out of Iran and she hasn't commented on that either. Nor has any senior official at State commented on what is happening on the streets in many Iranian cities.
She may be the most insignificant Sec State ever. Is it just because Obama has outsourced the functions of foreign policy leadership to various czars ? Or is she in so far over her head that she has decided to lay low until she has a chance to primary challenge the President lest people realize how unsuitable she really is to be POTUS ?
But we did hear from State Dept. spokesperson Ian Kelly who deflected blame from the State Dept to the NCTC .
Kelly said while the State Department had the authority to revoke a visa, it was not the department's responsibility. Kelly said when it comes to revoking visas, it's a question for the Nat'l Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC) and then they determined there was "insufficient evidence" to revoke the visa, despite the cable from the U.S. embassy in Nigeria sent to the State Dept. and NCTC on November 20, 2009. Kelly would not elaborate on how it was determined that there was "insufficient evidence," saying it was a question for NCTC.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archi...9/2162384.aspx