At Least They Can Get The Amateurs
By Mitch Berg
Next time you’re standing barefoot in the TSA line getting a rectal probe and watching them toss your toothpaste and shampoo, just remember – the system sort of barely works, if everything goes right and everyone is lucky as hell:
The Obama administration played down the fact that Shahzad, a U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, made it aboard the plane. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wouldn’t talk about it, other than to say Customs officials prevented the plane from taking off. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the security system has fallback procedures in place for times like this, and they worked.
And Attorney General Eric Holder said he “was never in any fear that we were in danger of losing him.”
But it seemed clear the airline either never saw or ignored key information that would kept Shahzad off the plane, a fact that dampened what was otherwise hailed as a fast, successful law enforcement operation.
I’m going to start a website where people can find when Dutch documentary filmmakers are travelling, and on which flight.
But thank heavens for small favors; Secretary Napolitano didn’t order her investigators to drop the search for Taliban sympathizers to focus on the NRA.
May 5th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
It must be Bush’s fault that he got on the plane, eh deegee/peevee/ayebee?
May 5th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
K-Rod-
It wasn’t Bush’s fault.
It was Cheney’s.
Pay attention next time, will ya?
May 6th, 2010 at 6:48 am
Just got done browsing my favorite liberal propaganda organ–the NYT–and whaddayaknow, after two days of official insistence that the Times Square bomber acted alone, now we hear that the Taliban may have been involved. Gee! Ya think?
May 6th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Does the international terrorist community really need to train people to put gas and propane canisters into a car? Sounds like the fantasy terror camp this guy traveled halfway around the world for ripped him off. Maybe Sen. Franken can call these guys before the Senate.
May 6th, 2010 at 8:53 am
The WSJ has some very good photos of the Greek Riots. I am very surprised that the riots are getting so little attention.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703961104575225472577513414.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop#articleTabs%3Dslideshow
May 6th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
If Italy was attacked from the rear, would Greece help?
May 6th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Go to your room.
May 7th, 2010 at 9:03 am
What about the guy who took off his shirt in New York? Wasn’t he supposed to be the mad bomber? Proof that balding middle-aged white guys were a menace?
What happened to him?