The latest attempt by the Obama administration to hide their incompetence and deny their failed policies is to state the obvious as if it were new information. In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Obama said of the Flight 253 bomber, "We know that he traveled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies. It appears that he joined an affiliate of al-Qaida, and that this group - al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula - trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America." Great detective work, Mr. President. The New York Times and hundreds of other media outlets published that information a week ago citing your government sources. (source)

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President Obama keeps turning up the internal heat regarding the terrorist attack on Flight 253. In both his public statements and in virtually all statements made by administration officials, the emphasis has been on a "mix of human and systemic failures" that allowed the attack to take place rather than on the Islamic terrorists - oops sorry, "isolated extremist" - who planned and carried out the attack.

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