Obama to Meet with Security Team

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Watch lists grow; Obama to meet with security team

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writers – 7 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The government has added dozens of people to the ominous lists of suspected terrorists and those barred from U.S.-bound flights, a crackdown that comes as President Barack Obama is poised to announce changes to the nation's watchlists.

At the White House on Tuesday, Obama will speak in fresh detail about the findings of the urgent, sprawling reviews he ordered of how the government screens airline passengers and how it works to detect and track possible terrorists. Obama's remarks, to come after his meeting with top security and intelligence officials, will outline steps designed to strengthen the watchlisting effort and to thwart future terrorists attacks, the White House said.

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Obama's meeting Tuesday will be his most comprehensive, hands-on briefing since the failed terrorist attack rocked the nation. Those Obama has tapped to conduct the reviews include agency heads at the highest levels — all of them central figures across the intelligence and homeland security landscape.
Obama will get updates on the investigation from FBI Director Robert Mueller, on the prosecution of the suspected terrorist from Attorney General Eric Holder, and on the review of terrorist detection techniques from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

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‘Some new information’

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the meeting will likely yield "some new information" about the steps ahead but the White House declined to go into further detail.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34679532/ns/us_news-airliner_security

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Richard Wolffe on Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann tonight: White House is looking also into whether this was a "systemic failure by" persons "who may have an an alternative agenda."

[onehandle]

1. Sounds like this President and his Administration are doing their job. Unlike the last ones.

I'm looking at you, George W. Bush and Dick Bruce Cheney.

[TygrBright]

2. "since the failed terrorist attack rocked the nation..." Excuse me? I wasn't "rocked."

Taken aback? Yes.

Relieved (that it didn't come off)? Yes.

Annoyed? Yes.

"Rocked?" No, not really.

There are going to be more attempts. Some might even be successful, although the ratio of unlucky incompetent doofuses to barely-competent and lucky doofuses is awfully high, so hopefully there won't be more really large-scale carnage.

We've created a world where people hate us. For many reasons. And where a lot of the people who hate us have nothing to lose. And where it's comparatively easy for people who hate us to have access to the materials and means to do harm.

I was "rocked" by 9/11-- which is when all of the realities of the previous paragraph gut-kicked me and took the lives of thousands of innocents.

I'm not "rocked" by one pathetic incompetent doofus trying to firebomb a plane and succeeding only in torching his own genitalia.

Grow UP, MSNBC.

tiredly,
Bright

[Hardrada]

3. I think there is more to all this than meets the eye.

[EFerrari]

4. Obama's "security team" has caused more problems

than any terrorist has or will. And I know that sounds hyperbolic but it isn't.

But we must have our Terra Theater.