Obama at War with al-Qaida
  by OffSite (1/10/10)

In the days that followed a foiled attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253, the Obama White House clearly thought that it could bluff its way past the near disaster.

Two days after the event, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano contended that “the system worked.” The next day, in prepared remarks, President Obama referred to suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as an “isolated extremist”—despite his apparent ties to al-Qaida in Yemen. Later, Obama counterterrorism adviser John Brennan asserted that there was “no smoking gun” that should have prevented Abdulmutallab’s entry into America—when everyone knew his father went to a U.S. Embassy in Nigeria to warn officials about his son’s radicalization. Full Piece

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