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Outrageous Outrage of the Day: Obama's 'Isolated Extremist' Remark

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nightlight12/29/2009 6:00:54 am PST

Two things that Napolitano said that I haven’t seen discussed much. Why did CNN know the bomb was in underwear before Napolitano did? Also, the shoe bomber was not in 2006 but in 2001.


KAYE: And that’s what I wanted to ask you about because as CNN has learned, this suspect had enough explosives to blow a local in the airplane, bring that airplane down. How is it that eight years after 9/11 this guy was allegedly able to bring these high explosives on board in his underwear?

NAPOLITANO: Well, your experts must know more than ours do at this point in time who are ascertaining exactly what the material was, where it was on the plane and what effect it would have had had it been detonated. But that doesn’t excuse the fact that it was on the plane.

And with all of the procedures we now have in place, now we’ve instituted new procedures moving forward, and we were able immediately upon the passengers apprehending this individual, to institute procedures for even for the planes that were already in the air so that moving forward, we could provide additional safety in the air environment. But we need to go back now, and the president has asked us to, to do a thorough review. These are procedures that have been in place since the shoe bomber in 2006, what needs to be updated, improved, upgraded to see that this doesn’t happen again.