So we can make the rest of America a safer place…
This from a longer discussion about the border with Mexico. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcX5xXzbfuc featuring another Obama / Osama slip of the tongue. Also, “taking your guns”, Hillary Clinton and all of the other touch stones.
h/t to MinistrOfTruth at Daily Kos – July 1, 2009 “GBCFOX”
From Juan Cole’s Informed Comment
Pakistani police on Thursday arrested a number of UK Muslims within Pakistan who were also suspected of involvement in the “Liquid Bomb Threat.”
British authorities say that they have been investigating the group behind the airplane bombing plot for “about a year.” The Scotsman says that the investigation began in 2005.
US authorities were only told about some details two weeks ago, apparently. It may be that the British counter-terrorism community learned its lesson from the loose lips of the Bushies in summer of 2004. I argued then that from what we could tell from open sources, it seemed likely that the Bush administration played politics with information about a double agent in Pakistan who was helping monitor a London al-Qaeda cell. It seems likely that the election-year leak allowed budding terrorists like Mohammad Sadique Khan to escape closer scrutiny, and so permitted the 7/7/05 London subway bombings to go forward.[Mike’s Emphasis]
If this operation is as advertised, then it underlines again the importance of plain old fashioned counter-terrorism and police work. An army of 136,000 men in the field can’t stop bombs from going off in Iraq every day. What stopped the liquid bomb plot was something superior, a tool fitted to the task.