Yemeni Former Gitmo detainees help train bomber wannabe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We cannot release the nearly 90 Yemeni Gitmo detainees back to Yemen. To do so would be foolish. Yemen's civil war has resurfaced, and the that fact it will run out of water and oil in the next fifteen years is not going to help the war on terror. Yemen's last heroic effort in the war on terror was the incarceration of US Cole suspects. They escaped from a prison in Aden. The left needs to wake up.

Obama agrees with you on not repatriating the Yemeni detainees and for once I agree with the President.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

We cannot release the nearly 90 Yemeni Gitmo detainees back to Yemen. To do so would be foolish. Yemen's civil war has resurfaced, and the that fact it will run out of water and oil in the next fifteen years is not going to help the war on terror. Yemen's last heroic effort in the war on terror was the incarceration of US Cole suspects. They escaped from a prison in Aden. The left needs to wake up.

Obama agrees with you on not repatriating the Yemeni detainees and for once I agree with the President.

PP again- Even despite John Brennan's insistence on all the Sunday morning shows that we would continue to release them. There seems to be a bit of discord in Team Obama on national security issues.

[Anonymous]

My vote is Brennan is the one who is going to see the door. There has to be a sacrifice right now, and he seems the most out of touch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My vote is Brennan is the one who is going to see the door. There has to be a sacrifice right now, and he seems the most out of touch.

Janet Napolitano seems completely out of touch too with her comment that "the system worked". She has made numerous ridiculous statements this year, but this most recent one smacks of the same self-serving spin in the face of crisis as the infamous proclamation "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job". Again Obama disagrees with one of his cabinet members on this issue. Trouble in paradise...

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:
Janet Napolitano seems completely out of touch too with her comment that "the system worked". She has made numerous ridiculous statements this year, but this most recent one smacks of the same self-serving spin in the face of crisis as the infamous proclamation "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job". Again Obama disagrees with one of his cabinet members on this issue. Trouble in paradise...

Do you know the context of Napolitano's "the system worked" remark? She said that once the attempted attack occurred, the system worked in that all other airlines and relevant officials were immediately notified in case similar attacks were also being launched. If you know the context, it is intellectually dishonest to portray it as you have. If you don't know the true contest, you need to find some new sources of information because you are misinformed.

It is disappointing that the dots were not connected to prevent Mutallab from boarding the aircraft. However, those are mistakes that can be corrected. The fact that Republicans have consciously attempted to exploit the incident for partisan political gain, are actually attempting to raise campaign funds from a potential mass murder and are attacking the Obama administration with lies and out of context quotes is a sin of commission rather than omission. This is shocking and indecent and has no place in American politics. You should be ashamed for participating in furthering their agenda.

[Anonymous]

[Do you know the context of Napolitano's "the system worked" remark? She said that once the attempted attack occurred, the system worked in that all other airlines and relevant officials were immediately notified in case similar attacks were also being launched. If you know the context, it is intellectually dishonest to portray it as you have. If you don't know the true contest, you need to find some new sources of information because you are misinformed.



To be completely accurate she issued this "clarification" to her statement the next day after the interview.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Do you know the context of Napolitano's "the system worked" remark? She said that once the attempted attack occurred, the system worked in that all other airlines and relevant officials were immediately notified in case similar attacks were also being launched. If you know the context, it is intellectually dishonest to portray it as you have. If you don't know the true contest, you need to find some new sources of information because you are misinformed.

To be completely accurate she issued this "clarification" to her statement the next day after the interview.

To be even more completely accurate, the "clarification" was issued in response to distortions of what she had originally said. Here is the actual quote:

"What we are focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel. And one thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here. The passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action. Within literally an hour to 90 minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 flights in the air had been notified to take some special measures in light of what had occurred on the Northwest Airlines flight. We instituted new measures on the ground and at screening areas, both here in the United States and in Europe, where this flight originated."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/27/sotu.01.html

She was not talking about the intelligence collection aspects of this incident which didn't work as well as we might have hoped. And, she was not talking about the screening procedures which failed to find the explosives and allowed Abdulmutallab on the plane. Regarding those, she says they are investigating it and then goes on to say:

"And again, once this incident occurred, what I really think deserves attention is everybody responded quickly, effectively, without panicking and shutting down the airline systems or air travel. What we did is dealt with the incident, put out additional security measures both at airports here and abroad, and made sure that the flights that were in the air were indeed safe."

You can argue that what was done after the incident is less important than what was done before it, and therefore Napolitano's emphasis was misplaced, but I don't think you can argue about what she said. Nor can you argue that her statement was not wildly distorted and taken out of context (even to the point where you appear not to have known what she originally said).