Evidence Deliberately Withheld?

Come, come...that's no way to fight a war. We can't have this talk about our security agencies this way, as if they would deliberately endanger the country they are supposed to protect. How will this unpatriotic talk help us invade new countries and steal resources and prop up dictators and increase defence spending and help our neocon defence conglomerates and consulting firms? We can't have this kind of investigation! What will great heroes like Lieberman and Cheney say to that, so unmarred by any speculation of wrongdoing, so pure in the soul and in the mind! No No, how dare these wobbly knee liberals talk of corruption at a time like this, when we should be throwing money at new defence investments and making a big splash of it, this is a war after all. A WAR!!!!

Well, if that isn't how you feel, you might want to look at this clip where towards the end Olbermann's guest suggests there could have been a deliberate witholding of information in the christmas bomber case. Now why would anyone think that? Just because his father was trying to warn the security services, doesn't mean anything does it? I mean they can't be expected to react to a real threat can they?

Alhaji in Visa Land

Here's a thought for you. A runaway 23 year old on a terror watch list, traveling through several third world nations, with explosives in his underwear and reportedly trying to board as a sudanese refugee without a passport can travel to the U.S. His father however, former chairman of the FIrst Bank of Nigeria, was denied a visa to find his son in Yemen when he believed he had gone astray or 'became radicalized.'

Here is the article.

The Sharp Dressed Man (and his friend the underwear bomber)

Ok, maybe you believe we are in danger from all those angry crazies out there. Afterall, they are upset about our freedoms, they don't have a girlfriend and they might bring a plane down with you on it. True. They also might have a better chance if a "sharp dressed man" helps them.

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html

or if you find UK news more appealing...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238802/The-boy-grew-bomber-Flight-chaos-investigators-check-London-links.html

Of course this witness must be mistaken right? Otherwise that means someone was helping this guy on a terror watch list get on a plane without a passport, obviously someone who COULD help someone get on an international flight without a passport. Not something your average angry islamo-fascist can do, right? Even if he did just buy some rad clothes.


7:09 PM, UPDATE:

This has now been taken up by some more main stream media sources and the witness has been interviewed here:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/12/witness_alleged_bomber_possibl.html

and here:

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/couple-talk-about-flight-253-experience