I Doubt Americans Will Be "Shocked" By Terrorism Report

Obviously, we'll have to see. But I do wonder if this isn't some classic expectations management. If so, that and the idea Americans will be shocked to learn some government employees couldn't find their azz with their hands in their back pockets sounds like it might be a bit of a stretch to me. Heck, the anti-terror chief couldn't even drag himself from the ski slopes.

 

Obama focused on health care, industry takeovers and demonizing corporations and profits, why should Americans have expected anything else?

 

WASHINGTON — White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel "a certain shock" when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane.

President Obama "is legitimately and correctly alarmed that things that were available, bits of information that were available, patterns of behavior that were available, were not acted on," Jones said in an interview Wednesday with USA TODAY.

Comments

[Al in St. Lou]

No, the Obama administration may be shocked at its own ineptness, but I won't be.

[Jeff]

If it doesn't "blame Bush/Cheney" at least once per page I for one would be shocked ... shocked on a unprecedented historic scale I tell you ... As I've said before to those who say do nothing ...

[DJ]

Let's see: the system which Bush / Cheney built to stop this type of lack of sharing has failed, yet it's Obama's fault?

Right.