As a result of his father’s warning, federal authorities in Washington opened an investigative file and Mr. Abdulmutallab’s name ended up in the American intelligence community’s central repository of information on known or suspected international terrorists.
Members of Congress who were briefed Saturday by governmental officials also pointed to a Yemeni connection.”
I can’t help but wonder why health care “reform” has been more important than getting Americans back to work, ensuring Americans get all their money used for bank bailouts returned to them and, most importantly, keeping Americans safe from terrorists, especially on our home soil.
The only reason authorities and the administration can talk about this is a cool, confident way is because the Nigerian’s bomb didn’t explode. Hundreds of lives were spared because of pure dumb luck and the intervention of a quick-thinking civilian. If it had exploded, the public would have been in an uproar. As it stands, the public should be in an uproar anyway. How did this Nigerian get so close to committing his heinous crime? Where was the TSA? Wasn’t there a U.S. Marshall on the plane? Isn’t Homeland Security responsible for watching and catching terrorists?
Obviously, the current security measures and authorities that exist are ineffective. Did we all forget what happened in early December when the TSA’s screening process secrets were posted on the web? These ridiculous screw ups will only mean longer lines at security check points, airlines suffering because people will start taking other modes of transportation resulting in higher air fares, a heightened sense of alert for the country because we’re still not safer than we were on 9/11 even though we’ve been told we are and, of course, far less confidence in our nation’s ability to stop such acts before they happen.
We have a more dangerous enemy of the state than terrorists. This enemy has a name: incompetence.
We have seen the enemy, and it is us.