Blah blah blah, big words and all, and all this really boils down to is the United States Government with all it’s money, power and political reach… they can’t do their job and the PARENT of the bomber turned their kid in…
WTF is this grade school?
Why don’t we call the parent down to the office with the kid to talk about his behavior? -your suspended- no bombing for 3 years and you’re not allowed to own a 7/11; ever.
“It now appears that weeks ago this information was passed to a component of our intelligence community but was not effectively distributed so as to get the suspect's name on a no-fly list,” Mr. Obama said. Even without this tip, which Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said earlier this week wasn't sufficient to warrant Mr. Abdulmutallab's placement on a no-fly list, “there were bits of information available within the intelligence community that could have and should have been pieced together,” Mr. Obama said.
“We've achieved much since 9/11 in terms of collecting information that relates to terrorists and potential terrorist attacks. But it's becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up to date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have,” the President said.
via Obama declares ‘systemic failure’ of security as CIA confirms it was warned – The Globe and Mail.