And it just keeps getting worse
Sigh. From a transcript of today’s press briefing with DHS Sec. Janet Napolitano and John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (via Keep America Safe):
“Senior” Obama admin official claims that Gitmo recidivism rate is Bush’s fault
Plum Line’s Greg Sargent excitedly reports on an unverifiable claim he received from a “senior Obama administration official” on the issue of Gitmo recidivism:
Richard Reid and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: Double standard in reax?
Predictably, when they can’t defend our celebrity President’s decisions and actions, the left turns to the “blame Bush” game in response – and why shouldn’t they, when the President himself and his administration have set the example that nothing bad that happens is his fault? So far, most on the left haven’t been able to put up a solid, sensible defense of this administration’s poor handling of the attempted terror attack on the Detroit-bound flight 253, so their response is to … ridicule the Republican response to dear leader’s incompetency, and to point out alleged “double standards” when it comes to examining the GOP’s reactions to the aftermath of the attempted attack last week versus their response post-Richard Reid’s attempted attack back in December of 2001. Anything to deflect.
Napolitano backtracks, says system “failed”
Just one day after her laughable remark about how the system “worked” in the passenger/crew-thwarted terror attack attempt on a Detroit-bound airplane on Friday, Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano has admitted that the system indeed failed: