Tuesday, December 29, 2009

A heckuva job

This employee says that despite statements from the Obama Administration, such information was flagged and given higher priority during the Bush Administration, but that since the changeover "we are encouraged to not create the appearance that we are profiling or targeting Muslims. I think career employees were uncomfortable with the Bush procedures and policies and were relieved to not have to live under them any longer."

We're getting here beyond mere incompetence--even beyond "systemic failure"--and into deliberate sabotage. But, no, no, no--says Rot--there is no Article 3, Section 3 in the Constitution. Tecs just made it up.

4 comments:

Tecumseh said...

CIA hard at work. Not.

Mr roT said...

Tecs, it's not sabotage. It's civil servants' comfort.

Tecumseh said...

At any rate, however you slice and dice, this is serious stuff. The Brits pass on specific intel on this guy (namely, that he was denied a visa based on his fishy application), but the Embassy staff (is that the CIA station? I don't know how this works) sits on the info, and doesn't pass it up the chain, just because they don't like doing it? Not quite clear what happened, and why, but you don't squirm out of this one by blaming it all on some redneck boogeyman in Alabama or something.

Mr roT said...

They made W's fascist system better.