President Barack Obama is announcing new measures Tuesday to beef up airline security after an alleged terrorist attempt to destroy a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.
It they're anything like the current random, non-behaviorally-based, non-profiled measures, they'll still be of questionable value.
Politico.com isn't very hopeful that meaningful changes are coming, or that anyone will be fired.
Hit for being too slow and diffident in his initial response to the Christmas Day terror plot, President Barack Obama is hoping for a do-over Tuesday – summoning his security chiefs to the White House to explain what went wrong.
The session in the Situation Room is Obama’s first chance to go face-to-face with those responsible for securing the nation, and a big opportunity to set the tone and tempo for the government’s response to the terror plot against Northwest Flight 253.
The White House is giving no sign Obama will ask anyone to take the fall for intelligence and security failures that led to the near-disaster. But the White House is trying to project an air of decisive action by the president, on an issue where the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Which just confirms our thoughts from this poll last week.
By: Brant
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