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Canada Fights Myth It Was 9/11 Conduit (washingtonpost.com)
TORONTO -- True or false? Shortly before Sept. 11, 2001, several of the terrorists who would carry out the attacks that day slipped into the United States from Canada. Canadian officials are vexed that 3 1/2 years later, they have not dispelled the groundless claim that Canada was a route for ...
The border for dummies
nationalpost.com — Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job?... She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo. In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. ... (more) The border for dummies
FT.com / US & Canada - US to put conditions on Tarp repayment
ft.com — Strong banks will be allowed to repay bail-out funds they received from the US government but only... if such a move passes a test to determine whether it is in the national economic interest, a senior administration official has told the Financial ... (more) FT.com / US & Canada - US to put conditions on Tarp ...
Napolitano Draws Resignation Calls After Gaffes on Veterans, Canada - First 100 Days of ...
foxnews.com — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is under fire for what critics see as a string of gaffes,... with a small but vocal group of conservatives calling for her to step down. The outrage continues to build over a report from her department that ... (more) Napolitano Draws Resignation Calls After Gaffes on ...
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Napolitano Blames Entry Of 9/11 Hijackers On.....Canada
Ace of Spades HQ — ... have a drug war going on, it didn't have 6,000 homicides that were drug-related last year," she said. "Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there." When asked if she was referring to the 9-11 terrorists, Napolitano added: "Not just those but others as well.". One, tiny, small, little problem. It's not what one might call strictly accurate. In the weeks after the attacks, investigators established that all of ...

Yeah but it’s the rednecks who didn’t vote for Obama that are teh stoopid ig’nernts.
Rachel Lucas — ... Wow. I know it’s very wingnutty and possibly RACIST and HATEFUL of me to expect the goddamn Secretary of goddamn Homeland Security to have a basic mastery of the facts, but I still really do expect that. But expectations are meant to be crushed like a pig ear in a Ridgeback’s mouth: ...

Blame Canada?
Political Punch — ... said that "we have people who farm both sides of the border. So it's very porous," Mr. Burns said, just days after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to consider building fences along the Canadian border. "We've got to remember that the people who first hit us in 9/11 entered this country through Canada." A spokesman for the Canadian embassy told the Washington Post that year in a story about the strength of the urban myth, that it all began with stories in the Boston Globe and Boston Herald from September 13, 2001, reporting that investigators were seeking evidence ...

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