{"id":10675,"date":"2010-05-05T12:10:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10675"},"modified":"2010-05-05T10:55:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:55:48","slug":"10675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10675","title":{"rendered":"At Least They Can Get The Amateurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you&#8217;re standing barefoot in the TSA line getting a rectal probe and watching them toss your toothpaste and shampoo, just remember &#8211; <a href=\"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.\">the system sort of barely works, if everything goes right and everyone is lucky as hell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>And Attorney General Eric Holder said he &#8220;was never in any fear that we were in danger of losing him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to start a website where people can find when Dutch documentary filmmakers are travelling, and on which flight.<\/p>\n<p>But thank heavens for small favors; Secretary Napolitano didn&#8217;t order her investigators to drop the search for Taliban sympathizers to focus on the NRA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you&#8217;re standing barefoot in the TSA line getting a rectal probe and watching them toss your toothpaste and shampoo, just remember &#8211; 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-war-on-terror","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10680,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions\/10680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}