Evidence is starting to stack up behind Kurt Haskell.

[Bonobo]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7395881

[KDLarsen]

1. How so?

The questions being asked are -- was this some kind of failure due to internal tensions between intelligence communities? Was information withheld intentionally in order to "make someone look bad?"

How does that become "Someone helped the bomber get on a plane without a passport"?

[Bonobo]

2. Keep your eyes open... (or closed, if you prefer). NT

[KDLarsen]

3. They're open..

.. and they'll be staying open until the inevitable happens, when the tinfoil hatters throw mr. Haskell under the bus for not saying what they want to hear.

[Bolo Boffin]

4. Nobody push him! n/t

[jberryhill]

5. No

Because if there was a failure to share intel on the panty bomber, deliberate or not, it wouldn't involve trying to get someone with a valid visa onto a plane without a passport.

The operation could have easily failed right there.

If you are going to let someone "slip through the cracks", that is different from a Rube Goldberg scheme hinging on a gate agent for Northwest Air.