Maybe I’m being cynical, but something about this just doesn’t sound right. U.S. Border security officials are now saying they learned of the airline bomber’s terror ties after he was already in the air heading for the U.S. They were planning to question him once he landed in Detroit.
U.S. border security officials learned of intelligence about the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt as he was en route to Detroit and had decided to question him when he landed, officials said in new disclosures today.
"The people in Detroit were prepared to look at him in secondary inspection," said a senior law enforcement official who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. "The decision had been made. The . . . database had picked up the State Department concern about this guy, that this guy may have been involved with extremist elements in Yemen. . . . They could have made a decision on whether to stop him from getting on the plane."
Just a couple of days after President Obama criticized the intelligence community for it’s failure to connect the dots we hear this story? Like I said, maybe I’m being too cynical but this sounds like a heaping helping of CYA to me.
They really did connect the dots, honest! They were a little slow so he was able to get airborne, but you can bet your sweet bippy he was going to br questioned once he landed! Seriously, he really was!
Yeah, right. This sounds like typical bureaucratic BS to me.
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