American Spectator ^ | December 31, 2009 | The Prowler
Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:49:19 PM by reaganaut1
Edited on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:35:19 PM by Admin Moderator. [history]
On December 26, two days after Nigerian Omar Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use underwear packed with plastic explosives to blow up the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight he was on, and as it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its most embarrassing failure in the area of national security, senior Obama White House aides, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and new White House counsel Robert Bauer, ordered staff to begin researching similar breakdowns -- if any -- from the Bush Administration.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 910mentality; 911forgotten; americainperil; axelrod; bho4terrorists; dnc4terrorists; enemydomestic; flight253; obama4obama; obama4terrorists; tas
I wonder why White House staffers say things to conservative reporters that make them look like traitors.
1 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:49:19 PM by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1
I don’t recall getting this kind of leak from the Clinton admin. Suppose this is real? It is credible; it’s the Chicago way.
2 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:51:58 PM by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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To: reaganaut1
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3 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:54:04 PM by happinesswithoutpeace (Nobody move, Nobody get hurt)
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To: reaganaut1
Their solution to a Terrorist Attack is to search through the archives for a similar failure in the Bush Administration?
Grasping at straws.
4 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:56:33 PM by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: reaganaut1
If true, this makes them look all the more incompetent as they would have to have ignored previous problems and did not do anything fix them.
5 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:56:56 PM by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: reaganaut1
The problem here is that Obama has surrounded himself with the same third-rate hacks he knew before getting elected.
Napolitano was correct in her original summation that the PASSENGERS are the principal force in national security.
6 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:59:02 PM by muawiyah
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To: reaganaut1
apparently by Axelrod and Emmanuel and Bauer(Anita Dunn’s husband, the newest zealot on the block) tasking staffers to declassify information to make Bush look bad- those staffers are being asked to become traitors
Now we know who is running the country’s response to another al Qaeda domestic attack while bambi, Biden and Pelosi are on tropical vacations
Note the incredible chutzpah of this troika starting a spin campaign accusing the GOP of politicizing national security by questions and criticisms! DeMint is being singled out by name, along with Cheney of course. Godspeed, gentlemen
7 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:59:43 PM by silverleaf (More folks were invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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To: reaganaut1
Blaming Bush doesn’t stop panty bombers. Bummer administration, welcome to the real world.
8 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:00:43 PM by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: silverleaf
This is more than asking people to be politically disloyal to President Bush. This is presenting a blueprint of what America knows, or doesn’t, right out where our enemies can see it. One of the best things George W. Bush did was to keep mum even though it was pushed to a fault.
Oy vey, Bummer, the gift that keeps giving.
9 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:03:30 PM by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: jimfree
I don't know whether it's incompetence or overconfidence that drives the left's idiocy any more.
Shred documents? Destroy hard drives? No, don't bother, just leave them for the reporters to find.
The system is corrupt, and they don't even bother to deny it any more. "We won, and we'll do what we like, and we don't care what you think about it."
10 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:04:39 PM by ZOOKER ( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
classified information is not the property of the White House to use in opposition research
It belongs to the People of the United States of America, and is to be kept safe for our benefit and protection
as usual the narcissists running our country fail to grasp that distinction
11 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:06:38 PM by silverleaf (More folks were invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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To: left that other site
and now, in these fragile times, we can wonder how much precious agency and analyst time is being directed by this White House to search the past for an excuse to smear Bush, instead of using all our analysts’ efforts to look FORWARD to try to deter the next attack!
12 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:10:38 PM by silverleaf (More folks were invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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To: reaganaut1
“This White House doesn’t view the Northwest [Airlines] failure as one of national security, it’s a political issue,”...
Are you kidding me? I don’t have the time to write about all of the ramifications of this statement and no one has the time to read them anyway, but these jokers need come to the understanding very quickly that this is not some kind of game. It’s simple. The terrorists want to kill us. What is not so simple is stopping them. Forget the politics. Do your job.
13 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:14:32 PM by Williford
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To: Williford
So does anyone have to guess what the preliminary investigation results will be when they are released later today? They are going to try the “Bush’s fault” line once too often and this will be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
14 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:18:34 PM by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate - West FL22nd - Dockery for Gov.)
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15 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:19:15 PM by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: reaganaut1
>> Nigerian Omar Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use underwear packed with plastic explosives <<
Allegedly?
16 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:25:16 PM by Hawthorn
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To: reaganaut1; kristinn
OBOZO and his Band of Dispicable GOONS are OUTRAGEOUS!!!!
THREE DAYS AFTER a CATASTROPHIC TERROR ATTACK WERE CONSUMED BY OBOZO’S GOONS TRYING TO POLITICIZE IT!!!! AND BLAMEING OTHERS!! RATHER THAN ADDRESSING THE SECURITY AND WELL BEING OF THREE HUNDRED MILLION UNITED STATES INNOCENT CIVILIANS!!
UNFREAKIN OUTRAGEOUS!!! and the Whole TIME THE KENYAN VILLAGE IDIOT GOLFED AND MADE MERRY ON HIS EIGHTEENTH MILLIONTH VACATION SINCE TAKING OFFICE ELEVEN OUTRAGEOUS MONTHS AGO!!!
UNFREAKIN BELIEVABLE!!! AN IN TERNAL ACT OF TERRORISM FAR WORSE THAN ONE CAN IMAGINE!! THEY DONT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT OUR SECURITY!!! THEY JUST WANT TO COMMUNIZE AMERICA!!
17 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:25:17 PM by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: reaganaut1
This is an impeachable offense. The foremost duty of the President is to protect the United States of America. It is not to win re-election.
18 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:31:19 PM by kittymyrib
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To: silverleaf
(To the tune of “Climb Every Mountain”
Comb every archive
Search Every Vault
Dig through Every hard drive
Make it Bush’s fault
Sort every shredder
Pick every brain
Make up a new memo
Cause our country pain
Call up IBM, and tell them you will pay
If they’d lend you an old Selectric for a day!
Chase every rumor
For your assault
make mountains out of molehills,
MAKE IT BUSH’S FAULT!
c2009 left that other site with apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein
19 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:31:50 PM by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: Williford
re: Do your job
They can't. They have no idea what to do, and no fire in the belly to drive them to do it. They honestly think George Bush was the threat to America. They are beginning to realize the true threat was Islamic extremism and it's a totally new idea to them. Every ounce of fight they had in them was used against the non-enemy of George Bush and Dick Cheney and the US military.
They have been caught flat-footed and have no idea what do do or how to do it.
20 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:45:40 PM by jwparkerjr
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To: reaganaut1
Sure wish Pres. Bush would speak up already. Either Pres. Bush.
21 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:46:54 PM by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (STOP the Tyrananny State.)
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To: left that other site
Their solution to a Terrorist Attack is to search through the archives for a similar failure in the Bush Administration?”
Conservatives can play that game:
How many rips in the fabric of security occurred under CLINTON?
Embassy bombings...
Cole Attack...
Refusing to take Osama Bin Laden from the Saudi’s because “we cannot think of a law to prosecute him under” (Thank you Madeline Never Will Be Bright).
When was the bombing of the Marine barracks?
I am sure Freepers can add to my list with ease.
We need to assess how guilty Clinton is for HIS actions.
22 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:49:05 PM by ridesthemiles
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To: muawiyah
that the PASSENGERS are the principal force in national security.””
Soooo Has Janet Nappy put the Dutch tourist on the payroll or in for a large reward?
23 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:50:06 PM by ridesthemiles
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To: left that other site
EXCELLENT
send it to the Capitol Steps - they do wicked political satire
24 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:53:17 PM by silverleaf (More folks were invited to the White House for Holiday parties than are being sent to Afghanistan)
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To: left that other site
"grasping at strasws"
Undoubtedly the Bush admin made errors too including the failure to enact profiling against likely bombers. But the big difference between the Bush admin and the Obama admin is that the Bush admin knew we were at war with Islamo-fascist terrorism. The Obama admin keeps on pretending the evildoers do not exist. We lucked out on Christmas. But eventually we'll all pay for their criminal ignorance.
25 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:53:38 PM by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: ridesthemiles
Hillary to way too busy now setting herself up to run against Palin.
Never ever elect another Clinton to office.
26 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:54:51 PM by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: left that other site; Liz; onyx; STARWISE; LucyT; MinuteGal; Jeff Head; doug from upland
Excellent LTOS.....can always count on a freeper to see the humor in this pathetic amateur group.
(To the tune of “Climb Every Mountain”
Comb every archive
Search Every Vault
Dig through Every hard drive
Make it Bush’s fault
Sort every shredder
Pick every brain
Make up a new memo
Cause our country pain
Call up IBM, and tell them you will pay
If they’d lend you an old Selectric for a day!
Chase every rumor
For your assault
make mountains out of molehills,
MAKE IT BUSH’S FAULT!
c2009 left that other site with apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein
27 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:58:56 PM by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: reaganaut1
So let’s review.
The BVD bomber gets on a U.S. bound plane without luggage, without a passport, and a one-way ticket, and would have blown up the plane except for the brave intervention of a Dutch tourist.
The U/S. government’s response is to:
1. Say the system worked, then say it didn’t.
2. Investigate bloggers who published TSA directives sent to 10,000 airports.
3. Comb thru classified documents from the Bush administration to try and find something, anything, to deflect attention.
I feel so very safe.
28 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:59:21 PM by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: reaganaut1
This and Eric Holder's Christmas gift to Al qaeda
Gitmo class of 2009
Eric 'Cov&Burl' Holder sent more of his buddies home weekend before Christmas: _Afghans Abdul Hafiz, Sharifullah, Mohamed Rahim and Mohammed Hashim. _Somali detainees Mohammed Soliman Barre and Ismael Arale. _Yemenis Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mari, Farouq Ali Ahmed, Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi, Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher, Fayad Yahya Ahmed al Rami and Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu al Haf.*
Watch for all their names in the news, blowing up CIA meetings in Afghanistan, preparing bonfire diapers in Yemen, and generally making the USA look like the keystone cops (Chicago style).
note * source michellemalkin.com
29 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:59:51 PM by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
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To: kittymyrib
This is an impeachable offense. The foremost duty of the President is to protect the United States of America. It is not to win re-election.””
Go after Clinton for treason, also-—He destroyed our long established and carefully built HUMAN INTELLIGENCE on the ground when he got enamoured with all the satellite information.
30 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:01:36 PM by ridesthemiles
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To: silverleaf
NObama was born a Muslim.
He was educated as a Muslim.
He will die a Muslim.
31 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:02:46 PM by ridesthemiles
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To: hoosiermama
Thank You my FRiend!
32 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:03:06 PM by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: driftless2
criminal ignorance Chicago style
Yep The Obama Legacy: Criminal Ignorants Administration and a Criminal Ignorant-in-Chief
33 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:05:28 PM by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
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To: reaganaut1
FIRE NAPOLITANO! Arrogance and Incompetence is a deadly combination.
34 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:07:06 PM by BuffaloJack (Hoax and Chains is not the same as hope and change.)
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To: ridesthemiles
"NObama was born a Muslim.
He was educated as a Muslim."
"He will die a Muslim."
35 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:09:58 PM by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: reaganaut1
There has been, in my opinion, a stretch to blame this on President Bush by the Bowrama administration. Nappy has to go! A total incompetent!
36 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:10:09 PM by Bushbacker1 ( I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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To: BuffaloJack
“FIRE NAPOLITANO! Arrogance and Incompetence is a deadly combination.”
That is a good one. There is Marxism in the air. Please move along. NOTHING will be done because everything is progressing in the correct direction.
Watch for many more RADICAL MUSLIM terrorist attempts in the near future.
37 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:10:26 PM by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: reaganaut1
I can just see the SNL skits now...
38 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:11:20 PM by bjc (Check the data!!)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Sure wish Pres. Bush would speak up already. Either Pres. Bush.
Won't happen. Too much class! Unlike the present Bowrama administration and the rest of his court jesters.
39 posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:12:52 PM by Bushbacker1 ( I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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To: Williford
Forget the politics. Do your job.
Don't hold your breath. Everything is politics with Zero and his gang of merry incompetents. They didn't seek power to protect America. Their aim is to consolidate power for themselves and their party. Also, to them, America is the bad guy and deserves a comeuppance. They are twisted to the core.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
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