Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 1, 2010

As is the case with many other unsuccessful terrorist plots, the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit is looking like an incident co-produced by the government that supposedly protects us.

For weeks prior to the incident, the CIA and State Department were aware that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who smuggled an explosive aboard the plane in his underwear, had been meeting with Islamic militants in Yemen.

State Department official Patrick F. Kennedy has admitted that Abdulmutallab was permitted to keep his visa at the request of unidentified intelligence officials.

Revoking the visa, Kennedy claimed, would have compromised the investigation. Allowing the bomber to use his visa supposedly permitted intelligence operatives to target the entire terrorist network, ?rather than simply knocking out one soldier in that effort.?

The bomber was known to U.S. officials, and permitted to board a U.S.-bound plane. And now the government is seeking to capitalize on an intelligence ?failure? that put hundreds of lives at risk.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.