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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 6:51 am
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This is a good one

“There was an airport that a U.S. flight carrier wanted to use as a last point of departure two years ago, and we denied it because we couldn’t ensure that planes couldn’t be hit by a shoulder-fired missile near the airport,” Ms. Napolitano said.

Name just 1 airport anywhere, where incoming or departing planes "couldn’t be hit by a shoulder-fired missile near the airport"

or this one

"after new reports that intelligence agencies had thwarted another plot by Al Qaeda to detonate an underwear bomb on an American-bound airliner. After that news emerged, Ms. Napolitano said the new measures being put in place in foreign airports for flights to the United States would have stopped a terrorist from boarding a plane with such a bomb."

Well, the plot was thwarted without occupation of foreign airports. What's her point?


The officials said that of the roughly 30 million travelers who passed through foreign airports with American Customs and Border Protection officers over the past two years, about 500 were deemed national security risks and were turned away or pulled aside for further questioning


500 out of 30 million "turned away or pulled aside" So not "arrested", not "thwarted their plot"

I think the US have really lost the plot. What a shame.
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