And this was on the ABC news website
Obama administration says Emirates Airlines Dropped the Ball; 9/11 Commission Vice-Chair Says U.S. Govt Is Dropping the Ball May 04, 2010 6:42 PMPrint <javascript:window.print();>RSS <http://feeds.abcnews.com/abcnews/politicalpunchblog>
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Senior administration officials say that Faisal Shahzad was put on the no fly list on Monday at 12:30 pm ET.
So how was he able to board the Emirates Airlines flight to Dubai?"It takes a few hours for the airlines system to catch up," a senior administration official tells ABC news.
Another senior administration official adds that Emirates refreshes their system to update with US intelligence information periodically -- but not frequently.
In any case, the first official says that airlines were "within minutes" of Shahzad being put on the no-fly list told to "look at a web-board" and manually check its passenger manifest against the news on the web board.
"That appears to not have happened" the official says. "For whatever reason there was a breakdown at the Emirates level."
Emirates Airlines provided its locked-in passenger manifest to the Customs and Border Protection agency. The plane at that point can leave. But a CBP official caught Shahzad's name on the manifest and the plane never left the gate.
"That redundancy is built in," the official says. "It's not luck it's design. It was good work by CBP."
Former 9/11 Commission vice chair and Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton seems less impressed.
Hamilton reminds ABC News that "the 9/11 commission recommended that you had to have biometric evidence, documentarian evidence of people coming in and exiting" the country. "We've done a pretty good job on the first part of it people entering the country. But with regard to those exiting the country we simply have not been able to set up a system to deal with that and it showed in this case."
Hamilton says "we need to have in this country a system of checking people leaving the country so that we can protect against the very sort of thing that happened here -- or at least almost happened here."
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Stupid is as stupid does. Homeland Security's new motto. Posted by: Steve | May 6, 2010 2:03:34 AMAh, Jakey, try as might - and you keep trying mightily - you're not gonna pin anything on the Obama Admin ...because they've done a whale of a job.
Try as he might, Jakey, President Obama cannot keep his eye on all 330 million + people in our country.
At least he's giving it his Grade A Effort, something Bush & Cheney rarely did. They were far too concerned with Iraq & the greatest business deal in the history of the world...make that The Greatest COLOSSALLY FAILED Business Deal In the History Of The World!
Posted by: Steve | May 6, 2010 12:56:40 AMSo we count on foreign airlines to prvent therorist attacks? God save America (and I am an atheist).
Posted by: Peter | May 6, 2010 12:53:23 AMExcuse me, This man gets put on a critical no-fly list at 1230 pm and then boards a plane some 5 hours later? And the excuse is because the airline didnt upload the data? This is unacceptable! Someone needs to develop a program that automatically uploads the data so the airlines dont need to do anything but read and execute, leadership takes responsibility not point the finger and come up with plausible denile, you would think that all the money we have spent to protect the public could fix this.
were doomed! Posted by: Kurt | May 5, 2010 11:27:23 PMYe with amnesia. Try Googling "Bush blamed Clinton." You'll find he was blamed for a recession, 9-11, high gas and this most recent recession. And we all know you guys think democrats are this whole housing thing and republicans have no guilt. I would imagine there is more.
Posted by: secondlook | May 5, 2010 11:14:36 PM that was a lie. And you didn't respond to what I said. How're those kids? Posted by: smartlillena | May 5, 2010 9:15:18 PM Smartlilena, I have no idea what you're talking about. You wrote:"progressive mama, if your husband spun you a yarn like that how fast would you tell him to pack his clothes and hit the trail?"
Since you are bizarrely obsessed with my posts and picking weird little fights with me, I assumed you were talking about my last post. Perhaps, you were talking about something that makes sense in your universe.
I assure you, I don't care either. Good luck in your world. It strikes me as an odd place, but fortunately, I don't have to live there. lol
Posted by: progressive mama | May 5, 2010 10:21:58 PM Blame Bush!!! Posted by: Michael | May 5, 2010 9:47:48 PMThis is indicative of a narcissist. Blame everyone else for you failures, take the credit for good.
Why would anyone ever listen to this man. If I was in a room with him and he told me that anything, I would turn my back and walk out of the room. I would not trust this guy to ever tell me the truth.
Please make this man impotent in November and then send him back to wherever he came from in 2012.
The man needs some long term therapy, hope his health care bill doesn not cover him. Maybe Sarah Palin, Rush and Joe the Plumber will be on the panel that turns him down for the therapy he needs.
Posted by: Dennis K | May 5, 2010 9:23:06 PM As for the rest, he knows the same people I do, Posted by: progressive mama ---I don't care who he knows that was a lie. And you didn't respond to what I said. How're those kids?
Posted by: smartlillena | May 5, 2010 9:15:18 PMOMG, why does it not surprise me that this administration is pointing their finger at Emirates Airlines. Since taking office, I couldn't even begin to list the amount of times this guy or his buddies have blamed someone else. It's disgraceful and embarassing. Can't wait for the elections!
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