Why is this dude allowed back in the United States? Why was he allowed to fly out in the first place?

I'm trying to stay rational about this, but alas, this blows my mind. Especially this part:

Also yesterday, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, Russ Knocke, said that Speaker and his wife were both positively identified by a ( Read more... )

OK.

So Britain finds out that a bunch of people were planning on blowing up airplanes using liquid explosives, which apparently are easy to smuggle. But it also turns out that this very same plot was broken up in 1995. Now, today, there are reports like this one in the New York Times about the United States rushing to get the technology in place ( Read more... )

July 12, 2006

U.S. Terror Targets: Petting Zoo and Flea Market?
By ERIC LIPTON

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/washington/12assets.htmlWASHINGTON, July 11 - It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that a child might have written: Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade, the Sweetwater Flea Market ( Read more... )

I submit this as evidence ( Read more... )