Tag Archive 'Flight 253'

Dec 30 2009

Our National Security Is Now Beyond “Hope”

It finally happened – as so many of us predicted it would. The Flight 253 bomber has lawyered up and gone silent after only alluding to future attacks against America are on the way: The Washington Post reports that the would-be Christmas bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, remains in a Detroit prision where, after initial debriefings by […]

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Dec 30 2009

Great – Somalia Was Able To Stop Similar Airline Bomber Just Last Month

Well, now we know how bad our defenses have atrophied since just after 9-11, and probably since President Bush left office. It seems the Somalis were able to detect and stop a similar airline bomb plot just last month: MOGADISHU, Somalia – Officials say a Somali national tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu […]

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Dec 30 2009

What Did The Obama Administration Change, And When Did They Change It?

Welcome RCP Readers – you may want to check out this update in a later post where a State Department source confirms my suspicions. – end update You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know the liberal leaning Obama administration came into DC with the intent of undoing as much of President Bush’s […]

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Dec 29 2009

Bureaucrats Running For Cover Over Flight 253

The finger pointing going on right now in the aftermath of the barely missed Christmas Day Massacre on Northwest Flight 253 is dizzying. The State Department is blaming the National Counter Terrorism Center for not revoking Abdulmutallab’s visa, and I am sure the NCTC is going to question why the State Department didn’t tell them […]

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Dec 29 2009

Useless & Inane Gestures Of False Security

When faced with a critical challenge I guess some people just need to feel like they are doing something, so they concoct useless and inane gestures to make it seem like they are doing their job. Then there is the whole ‘fool the people’ gambit as well, where you try and simply snooker people into […]

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