Yes, Virginia, the System Didn’t Work and May Never Work | Print | E-mail
Written by Sam Blumenfeld
Monday, 04 January 2010 08:39
The fact that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old al-Qaida operative from Nigeria, was able to board an American airliner in Amsterdam with bomb-making materials in his underwear would indicate that the system created by the federal government to prevent this from happening failed. And it failed in a big way. Almost 300 lives would have been lost had his bomb exploded.

We are being told that that certain pieces of information about the Nigerian were not being shared by the various intelligence agencies within the system. This problem of communication between agencies was supposed to have been solved after 9/11. Although there were red flags being waved all over the place before 9/11, no one in the federal government bothered to “connect the dotsâ€