Obama mishandled the Underpants Bomber: David Rivkin on "Fox & Friends"

The Obama administration made egregious errors when they did not interrogate the would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The terrorist was given medical treatment and a public defender. David Rivkin, former Justice Department official, weighs in on White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' remarks on the "Underpants Bomber," Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, on "Fox & Friends." "It was certainly a knee-jerk reaction from the Obama administration. There was no system in place," says Rivkin (www.davidrivkin.com). Please comment. (Original air date: January 25, 2010.)

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• FoxAndFriends
• Robert Gibbs
• David Rivkin
• homeland security
• underpants bomber
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• Obama
• Umar
• Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
• Christmas Day bomber
• Northwest Flight 251

[OutragedPeople]

The whole TSA brouhaha about invasive pat-downs was ostensibly caused by a reaction to the Underpants Bomber. It only took them 11 months to implement. What a joke, what a fraud.

[JSellNYC]

Rivkin is helping Americans who don't want their liberty taken away. This was the first guy to identify the unconstitutionality of Obamacare. He really does defend the Constitution against these idiotic attacks.

[OutragedPeople]

I don't understand the Obama administration's treatment of the jihadist imam, a U.S. citizen, compared to the criminal charges levied against this guy, a foreign terrorist.

[socialmediapull]

I am sick of seeing Robert Gibbs mouth off and attack anyone who disagrees with Obama.

[DieselEnergyStix]

Inconceivable what is happening in this country. Our own executive branch subverting our defense in the name of defense.

[OutragedPeople]

Just listening to some prof on John Stossel tonight, who was dismissing citizens' concern about terrorist attacks by citing statistics (more likely to be struck by lightning, hit by a car, etc.). David Rivkin, keep up the good work. Keep fighting for our security.

[jcruenv]

All hail the community organizer in chief and his merry band of idiots intently gazing at their navels without a shred of real world experience in those things that matter.

[EpiphyteAAA]

Wow.

Guy was radicalised in Togo and London, transferred to an Al Qaeda camp in Yemen, hung out there for how long? And these IDIOTIC, POLITICALLY CORRECT, LIBTARDS mirandize the guy after 50 Minutes?

G-d help us.