More Christmas Bombing Fallout: Hillary’s Visa Problem
by Richard GrenellPresident Obama came back to work this week after leaving the Presidency for his Hawaiian holiday vacation. Hawaii proved to be a restful retreat for the President, his team and the White House press corps who all took time off from their regular duties to enjoy the Hawaiian sun and ignore their responsibilities.
But after 10 days of tropical silence, this week there is a sudden flurry of security reviews, media statements, ass-covering and more misstatements coming out of Washington from the Obama Administration. But we still don’t know why the State Department didn’t revoke the visa of a man they knew had ties to al-qaeda.
Even the normally workaholic Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was enjoying a silent 10 nights on the matter. Taking her time to get the facts and pack up the Christmas decorations, Hillary finally came out looking like she had just landed in Yugoslavia under sniper fire.
Secretary Clinton joined Janet Napolitano in glossing over the facts surrounding the Christmas Day attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253. Not to be outdone that all went well with her agency while the boss was on vacation, Secretary Clinton said that the State Department “fully complied with the requirements set forth in the interagency process” about sharing threat information.
What?
Fully complied? The State Department not only failed to share the threat information with a variety of agencies but those who had the information didn’t even act upon it themselves. In fact, Several State Department officials in Nigeria and Washington, DC didn’t even do the basic tasks expected of public servants working to protect Americans.
Not only did the State Department not comply with all the requirements Secretary Clinton had said, but the State Department also violated United Nations Security Council Resolution 1735 by not providing the new information they received on an al-qaeda suspect to the UN. We know that State Department officials in Nigeria and Washington had the information because someone wrote a top secret cable dated November 20, 2009 explaining that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had ties to al-qaeda. This means that the State Department had 35 days to revoke Adbulmutallab’s visa and share the information with the UN – it failed to do either.
Had the State Department shared the cable with other U.S. agencies or given the information to the UN, as required under the Chapter 7 Resolution, all Nations would have been obligated to deny entry and freeze the assets of anyone officially on the UN’s Terrorist List.
The smoking gun is the November 20 State Department cable that wasn’t acted upon. No one shared it with the Embassy visa section, other U.S. agencies or the UN. How could a top secret cable be written but not acted upon by the same Embassy that wrote it? Questions remain as to who approved the cable, where was it sent and why wasn’t a visa revoked because of the cable?
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Robin Sanders and Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson need to answer some questions about what they did with the November 20, 2009 top secret cable containing crucial national security information. Did they ignore the fact that their Embassy identified an al-qaeda operative? Did they not check to see if a visa was already granted to this al-qaeda operative? Who all approved the visa? Who read the cable? At the very minimum, Ambassador Robin Sanders needs to tell the American people why she didn’t revoke the visa of Abdulmutallab after her team originally approved it.
What we’ve learned since Janet Napolitano and Hillary Clinton thought everything went as bureaucratically expected on Christmas Day is that President Obama takes surf board accidents on his vacation very seriously but is willing to delegate the safety of the American public to subordinates.
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'fully complied'… bwahahaha!! remember this line – 'there is no controlling legal authority….' as spoken by Algore regarding his illegal calls from the WH for campaign contributions. my goodness – her language is so predicatble.. so clintonesque… so… tiring.
Hey, why not keep quiet?
There's enough idiots in this admin. to take blame for it all.
Hillary had her share of embarrassment in the Clinton years.
http://RightWingStuff.com
I just want to know why anybody is suprized
DO YOU THINK OBAMA WILL FIRE HILLARY? THAT WOULD BE TOO FUNNY.
We have an administration full of agenda driven mental midgets. I guess it's more palatable to them to lose a few hundred lives than have the proper authorities and the American citizens know that a muslim tried to create a man caused disaster.
I don't know who is to blame, but it will be the The law abiding American people who will pay.
The very cynical part of me thinks that this administration WANTED a "man-caused disaster" about the size of an airliner bombing in order to serve as a handy crisis to distract everyone from the OTHER man-caused disaster known as "health care reform".
Talk about the gang that couldn't shoot straight!
This administration is going to get a lot of people killed if it does not change its priorities. Somebody in this administration needs to step up and focus on the Jihadist threats and stop passing the buck. You hear that Mr. President!
Looking at the picture above, I wonder if the Hildebeast has made an appointment with Pelosi's plastic surgeon yet.
While we are on the topic of Hawaiian vacations, you'd think some of those loving liberals would have dropped by the hospital to visit Rush Limbaugh. You know, just to check and see how he was doing……..
I don't know, but she could sure use a little tightening.
She has more wrinkles and extra skin, than a old pair of Luchesee alligator boots………..
It looks like we soon may get to see the Clinton Machine vs. Chicago Machine war. This could get good?
yup
She may want off of this loony bus.
Obama wants "more speed" updating the "watch lists";
Sure he does. Ya, speed. Got it.
Right after everybody gets back from vaction and takes all their "Personal days" and then takes a WEEK OFF for the Super Bowl…
"HEY, Ski Season only lasts SO LONG YOU KNOW! We public trough asswipes WORK HARD!"
"We need our time off, this administration has been in office LESS THAN A YEAR, WE'RE TIRED!"
Just like WE'LL be the ones paying $200-300 MILLION for security, so Holder and Obama can offer the terrorists American citizens' rights, when WE want them kept at Gitmo until a military tribunal!
I'll take the wrinkles. Imagining the look of eternal surprise on Hillary is more than I can stomach.
Ya, when a full time RED SQUARE COMMUNIST gets into the White House!
oops…nevermind.
Oh, my. I, too, had thought…hmmmm…this certainly was a distraction and a crisis, and that bunch never lets one go to waste.
Psst.
Look again. We have one there now. Comrade Barry………..
Bad idea, we don't need two Pelosis.
Both Machines have a problem. Neither one seems to be able to manage the operational side of WH administration. Lives have already been lost over this (Ft. Hood); hundreds barely escaped thanks only to detonator malfunction over Detroit. CIA base bombed by double agent. Are H and 0 really that bad, or are they just intentionally resetting our expectations?
That would be a HUGE political chess move. A disgraced, fired Hillary Clinton, as Sec of State, would have a big problem running for office in the future. Hmmm…
Agreed. Many have already died. Problem remains: America voted image over substance. 0 is not capable of managing this threat, even if he was inclined to do so. "Man-made disasters" are not likely to stop after 0's string of apologies and retreats.
I think this may be unprecedented! Neither H or 0 has blamed Bush yet…or did I miss it?
Hillary Clinton has been AWOL.
Just a couple months ago, she snarled for EVERYONE to know " I AM THE SECRETARY OF STATE, NOT MY HUSBAND!!!"
Oh, now where is she? She's SO gone, it's as if the State Department and the Secretary of State never existed.
Personally, based on photos, I think she had a bit of minor work done before the campaign. Between her "Bill" crises, and those of her own making, she must have a lot of stress, and stress ages anyone.
However, I LIKE that she hasn't become "Pelosified." I hope that she doesn't.
It's a fact that when a woman gets to a certain age, and her estrogen rapidly decreases , her face will change. Contrary to former opinion, the trade-off is possibly better health than if she took hormones long-term.
Just pay attention to photos and films of famous women who cross that threshold. It's easy to determine the ones who don't resort to chemicals or surgery. Not that surgery is necessarily a bad option, but I like the fact that some women are secure enough in their "own skins," that they don't find it necessary.
A system is only as good as the people who respect it and follow it. Forget all the political spin, pointing fingers – what I want to know is who the complete idiot ticket agent that decided their judgement was 'better' than following a system that requires a legitimate form of ID (gee a passport, anyone) or something more convincing than an expired Visa. Seriously- no red flags went up? none? one-way ticket, cash, young, any questions to inquire why he was traveling to the US with no apparent plans to return?
It doesn't matter which country the flight originated in the airline is US owned and all employees are fully aware of entry requirements into the US. What did they think was going to happen on the other end? Either they were in on it or they are so completely dumb they should be held for the attempted murder of everyone on the flight. Clearly terrorism doesn't need more help from incompetence.
oh ya, damn Okenyan! the fact that he's millionaire from selling biographies detailing his NON accomplishments led me to EXCLUDE him…
You don't know who is to blame? What? You haven't heard? IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!!! These idiotic fools will never give up on blaming Bush.
Remember Ol' Ma Richards?
She was really secure in her own skin. All of it………….
….."Secretary Clinton said that the State Department “fully complied with the requirements set forth in the interagency process” about sharing threat information."
Hillary must not have gotten memo from Hussein Obama
……."Whatever happens for the next 20 years is Bush's fault "
Yep, Cowboy, I do. Whatever I thought of her politics, I respected that about her.
Like Obama the Messiah would show up to heal Rush? Yeah, right.
He'd send Axelrod to bore Rush to death first.
For a woman who had sex with Bill, I'd say she looks pretty good.
However, that mask she is wearing is hideous.
I hold Hussein personally responsible for this intelligence failure, not the agencies. One of Hussein's first acts as president was to intimidate and interfere with the CIA's pursuit of islamic terrorists. After Hussein threatened CIA agents with prosecution did he think they would remain vigilant and proactive? Hussein is in way over his head. He's a political neophyte who's only in the position that he is because he's black. No sane person would argue that had Hussein been white he would have been elected. When you apply affirmative action to the highest position in the land you get abysmal failures at every level as we've seen with Hussein and the grossly incompetent democrats.
Revolution 2010: Throw out every democrat cretin and restore American Exceptionalism.
But Mr. Savage cannot fly to England…
I feel so safe………………………
you missed it
See I'm not a Republican OR a Democrat. I like to think for myself. The loons on the left AND right are full of sound and fury signifying nothing. The extremists on the left AND right calling for violent revolution, don't realize how stupid they sound. There is nothing wrong with hating the President and the Government, it's very Patriotic. Your arguments would have more credibility and have less fallacies if you stuck to the facts and laid off the ad homniem attacks, name calling is so third grade. I guess there is a certain narcissist thrill that comes out of posting anonymous web comments and preaching to the choir. It's sad to see American's cheering for a terrorist attack and for the assassination of their President. Love him or hate him, Barack Obama is the POTUS. regards
Damn Boy, quit yer bitching!
Obama says "the buck stops with me" when it comes to terror threats against the U.S., orders changes in how intelligence data is handled.
Associated Press | 4:57 p.m. ET
I like to think for myself.
Based on your comment it's apparently a difficult task. I realize you're not the brightest individual so I'll type this slowly: not all Revolutions are violent. And tell me stupid, where do you see Americans cheering for a terrorist attack? Did you have the same righteous indignation when liberal bottom feeders were calling for President Bush's assassination? I suspect not, you "free thinking" imbecile.
"NO ONE MESSES WITH JOE!"
ROTFL
both machines need to be ground to a halt….
I would gladly give a portion of that money if KSM were strung up like a pinata and I got a few licks in with a baseball bat. Talk about worth it.
This gang shoots very straight, they just have the gun facing in the wrong direction.
Oh yeah!
Detonator malfunction as in, dude roasted his chestnuts on an open fire…
Take that apple on kids head.
Yeah I did. The loons and bottom feeders on the left and right are re-tards. Some Revolutions, are violent. I didn't like Bush because he was 'appointed' POTUS by the SCOTUS. I supported him after Nine Eleven though, at least until he cut and ran from Afghanistan into Iraq. Reading the comments on this thread and a few others Drudge linked to in the last few days, its seems like you and your ilk have more anger and hate for President Obama then the Islamofascists we are at war with. I don't see any sort of support, just a lot of whining, moaning, and bitching. You won't admit it, but you won't be happy until this President get's his brains blown out. It's cool, keep on whining in this echo chamber.
Thanks for confirming that you're a deluded fool.
I think everyone is so concerned about p.c.ness that they would let a man board with no passport, paying cash for a one way ticket, with no luggage, with a Muslim name, carrying the latest edition of "Your 72 Virgins" chanting death to America, down with the infidels simply to boast of non profiling!
True but that seems to be his MO. It took him 4 days to figure out if he could shoot some pirates on a boat. It took him 6 months to pick out a dog. And before the "police acted stupidly" he said he wanted health care done and on his desk August 8th.
Rush the big stuff, Can't figure out what to do on the serious stuff and take your time on the stupid stuff.
Ah boy, we have a person here with NO soul and just puts his index finger to the air to see how the winds are blowing and his middle finger to real Americans
Heads up. Miss Wanna Be President because I am entitled is still in the game. Riady is back in the US.
The VERY FIRST response of the NSC after Detroit was to order their staffers to run, not walk, and…….go through the files looking for dirt on the Bush admin re Yemen or Nigeria. I'm not making this up.
Yes we're talking about Broom Hilda but here's another vacationer who didn't care enough to fly back to DC when the underwear bomber almost destroyed a lot of people.
"The top official in charge of analyzing terror threats did not cut short his ski vacation after the underwear bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Christmas Day, the Daily News has learned.
Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center since 2007, decided not to return to his agency's "bat cave" nerve center in McLean, Va., until several days after Christmas, two U.S. officials said.
"People have been grumbling that he didn't let a little terrorism interrupt his vacation," said one of the sources."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/...
"You won't admit it, but you won't be happy until this President get's his brains blown out"
Don't you love the smugness with which libs like to claim they know everything, including what's inside people's heads? What are you, a Vulcan?
Actually I'm waiting for a heart attack or stroke: proof that the God still sheds his grace on America.
(OTOH, I'd love to see a patriotic vet with the requisite skill set put a .338 Lapua through Medea Benjamin's traitorous melon from 1000 meters).
Maybe that was the plan all along.
You don't visit your enemy in the hospital. You cheer his pain. Our country IS at war with conservatives doncha know.
Did Hillary get a botox treatment while she was awol?
I'm one of those who works, plays, and almost sleeps at the computer, and I swear, "Don't TreadOnMe" is the first instance I have read of any one suggesting this possibility. Now two of us are paranoid.
No "Finger Pointing" allowed!
That is when the lefts favorite group is the failure point, then its no ones fault, and no finger pointing is allowed or will be tolerated etc.
When its the lefts boogey men in the spotlight (CIA, DIA, NSA etc) then it is "Congressional Hearing" time.
When you reward failure you get more of the same, AQ leadership must be rubbing its hands and cackling.
Hussein and his Posse of Clowns hard at work!
Snip "…laid off the ad homniem attacks" … "name calling is so third grade" … " narcissist thrill" … "how stupid "
So branding the proponents of this site as "name calling third grade level stupid narcissists" is not an ad hominem attack?
Briar,
Make that three on all accounts. oops, except work, I'm retired.
So much for avoiding ad hominem attacks, I think you should call yourself "Two Faced American" much more appropriate
Uh, er, ah, oh. Hillary, ahh, is, ahhh, still, errr, trying, ahhh, to, ahhh, err, answer err, ahhh, um. Got that? It's called gummint speak and she has it mastered. The cackle is all hers.
That didn't really do anything for me Post American but thanks.
Thanks. Coffee is all over my keyboard now.
No, the Obummer people were convinced that it was "another" Rush Limbaugh.
They are rewarding failure by "spreading" around the blame where there was none and giving cover to their pets in the State Department, I suspect they will also use this as an excuse to start mucking about with programs that work and adding even more layers of "process" into the mix.
If it's an agenda driven PR move bad enough from a morale perspective, but I suspect they will be ordering a full review of all procedures "Regardless" of effectiveness which opens the door for bureaucrat tampering.
Imagine Janet and Hillary looking this stuff over and deciding what is and is not effective from a politically correct perspective. I have little doubt that anything good will come out of this regardless of what the Hobbyist in Chief wants.
Once the political cronies get involved there will be all kinds of opportunities for mischief and I just wonder which agencies and programs will get the most scrutiny?
Didn't you hear POTUS today? The buck stops with him. Good. Jail him for being a terrorist enabler.
No bail. Bring him to trial, and any co-conspirators. So many have said it was their fault the guy got thru. Good. Jail them too. No Bail. Send them to Gitmo as enemy combatants. Try and convict them all on the evidence and their confessions. Then we can clean house.
Because they are all guilty. Their policy. Their just rewards, before they kill us all.
How about dear Helen Thomas? She's obviously been secure for nearly a century now.
You won't admit it, but you won't be happy until this President get's his brains blown out. It's cool, keep on whining in this echo chamber.
I'd be satisfied with a thorough flogging and deportation.
According to PA, no matter which way we lean politically, we are just suppose to "bend over" and take whatever our dear POTUS has for us.
PA is smarter than all the lefts and rights(third graders), so we should really respect what s/he has to say.
Coyote12
Yes he has bass ackwards down to a T.
Deborah
oBe Be gave him a LOOK, now Joe is hiding.
Obama’s Obvious Disdain at http://biggovernment.com/
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The_Great_Satan
What's that you said? Be you racists?
Just because your right doesn't mean you can say it.
Revolution 2010! Absolutely. http://tinyurl.com/ykbzshb
Revolution 2010! Absolutely. http://tinyurl.com/ykbzshb
LiberalHypocrit
Very well said sir.
Biden for President 2010. Don't laugh or castigate me for saying this. He may be an idiot, but his tendency to blunder would make him "somewhat" transparant…….and Obummer could resume his community organizing……..at GITMO.
We don't need bureaucrats in these positions. We need Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys–anybody with a detective's mind, and not a mind full of pay grades and gov't retirement.
That is my first thought, Hillary will be getting out before things get any worse.
Gingersnapper, in Mark Twain's book Letters From Earth, God banishes Satan into the darkness for a short period of time for his loose tongue. I empathize with Satan.
oh for the life of a politician! A top salary,! Someone to drive you while you read or just gaze! Always a great
excuse not to ever cook again…. HILLARY WHAT ARE YOU BEEFING ABOUT NOW?
Great stuff at that link. Nice job.
Tell UN? Really? That would mean the terrorist will know immediately that their man is outed.
I would imagine their biggest frustration is that the guy failed…probably chewed him out the minute they got him behind a closed door with, “You idiot. We were told you were completely prepared for this mission. We knew you were on the plane and had agreed not to expose you ‘until the end of the flight’.” These people are so full of malfeasance and incompetence it has to add up to treason at some point. (Doesn’t it?)
This poster really has reading comprehension problems. The comments about the commenters don't fit anything I have read here. Perhaps this is just a troll who hops from site to site making leftist comments without any idea what they really mean.
Thanks. Obama "inspires" me. So does Congress.
Not if it's done by someone who thinks for himself, and is comfortable calling others "loons".
Perhaps this is the oppty that the fraud has been looking for: pin the entire failure to communicate and be rid of hillary once and for all. I love it when liberals are all looking to find someone to blame, but it's only their own fault for being so soft on national security. obama and all of his minions in congress should be tried and jailed for aiding and abetting our enemies.
The buck stops with obooba. Period. If he, nor his accomplices, czars and other assorted fools were not so blatantly incompetent, we would not be in this mess. If there were enough voters who weren't so d*mn incompetent, this fraud would not be in the White House.
Well stated.
Rule of thumb: "Elite" communist Democrats never serve in the military, but often LOVE "service" with six figure salaries in the State Department. Hillary is no exception.
And as for Obama not addressing the nation about the failed attack until an entire four days after it happened?
The Left has no problem with that, just so long as the reason for the delay WASN'T that he was reading a book to little kids.
Where is Joe Biden? I thought Joe was on the job! The President's Right-Hand-Man is AWOL? Has anybody seen or heard from him since before Christmas?
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