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2009-12-29 Home Front: WoT

CIA admits tracking 'The Nigerian' before NorthWest terror attack

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Posted by tipper 2009-12-29 20:09|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 A shining example of the seam in our society these scumbags operate in. The CIA can't go after every nutjob in the world. They can't go after him until they get him acting or planning, not shooting his mouth. Nigeria's population is half full of people that hate America. Every 20something kid there wants to cap an american or be one. There are 500,000 people on that watch list they put him on.

The police can't do anything until there is a crime. They have no jurisdiction in Nigeria. I guess we could deny all visa's from Nigeria, guess we should have done that 40 years ago!

The issue is how do we find track, decide relevance, and then act? When our nation is prepared to do this correctly we can get to most of these. Until then we will continue to swat flies.

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-12-29 21:49|| 2009-12-29 21:49|| Front Page Top

#2 "...our Government, is reviewing all data to which it had access - not just what we ourselves may have collected - to determine if more could have been done to stop Abdulmutallab."

What else could they possibly do? Maybe not give a visa to someone who is suspected to be a terrorist by the CIA if the person has been reported by his father to western authorities as having radical Islamist beliefs. No that is not sufficient, they have not been convicted of any crime. Who are we to be the determiner of who is or is not a terrorist?

Posted by Hank 2009-12-29 23:33|| 2009-12-29 23:33|| Front Page Top

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