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2010-05-19 Home Front: WoT

Agencies failed to connect dots in attempted airline bombing

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Posted by Steve White 2010-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It identified 14 "points of failure" in the incident including the failure of the State Department to revoke the suspect's U.S. visa

Here we go again. Spread the manure so evenly so no one agency stinks more then the other. The intelligence community should not take a hit for the DoS failure to keep a U.S. visa away from a terrorist. Abdulmutallab had his visa application denied in 2004. Yet four years later some consular officer decided Abdulmuttalab's father was too much of a Nigerian muckity-muck to upset any diplomatic relations. In other words, it wasnt the State Departments' failure to revoke the suspect's U.S. visa. Abdulmutallab should have never been granted one in the first place! Maybe the US should reexamine whether the State Department should continue to take the lead regarding visa issuance. Or would that hurt Hildess feelings?

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-05-19 09:32|| 2010-05-19 09:32|| Front Page Top

#2 blaming security agencies for not being perfect gets us ... nowhere.

profiling and scrutinising muslims gets us somewhere safer

Posted by anon1 2010-05-19 09:55|| 2010-05-19 09:55|| Front Page Top

#3 I sat on an Embassy's Country Team right after 9/11, and the State Department came out with their 5 priorities for the next 4 yr cycle and none related to Counter-terrorism until myself and the DAO objected. The USDS is replete with a bunch of wish-bubble living boobs.

Posted by Hammerhead 2010-05-19 17:14|| 2010-05-19 17:14|| Front Page Top

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