Canadian border ‘most likely entry point’ for terrorists, U.S. Congress hears
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I have friends that are American (some are Members here), for one thing.
Probably the same ones that are friends of mine.
And I can be diplomatic...sometimes.
You're more diplomatic than I.
And you would've really loved Tober, lol.
Muricans..........It is scary that such high profile and positioned one's are so uninformed..............
At a border conference in Washington, DC, on Monday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was giving an interview to the CBC’s Neil Macdonald when she upset Canadian government officials by seeming to reinforce the false story that 9/11 hijackers entered the U.S. through Canada.
The former Arizona governor was asked by Macdonald why there was a "need for same level of security on the Canadian border as on the Mexican border given two drastically different realities?"
Responded Napolitano, "the law says the borders are the borders and these are the kind of things that have to be done at the borders." She added that "Canada is not Mexico, it doesn’t have a drug war going on, it didn’t have 6,000 homicides that were drug-related last year. 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."
Asked Macdonald: "Are you talking about the 9/11 perpetrators?"
"Not just those but others as well," Napolitano said.
But the 9/11 perpetrators did not come into the US from across the Canadian border.
Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Wilson Tuesday told reporters that "unfortunately, misconceptions arise on something as fundamental as where the 9-11 terrorists came from."
Wilson said that "as the 9/11 Commission reported in 2004, all of the 9/11 terrorists arrived in the United States from outside North America. They flew to major U.S. airports. They entered the U.S. with documents issued by the United States government and no 9/11 terrorists came from Canada."
Napolitano is hardly the first US politician to walk this path. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., told Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes in 2005 that "far more of the 9/11 terrorists came across from Canada than from Mexico." Gingrich later apologized to the Canadian Ambassador.
William Elliot, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told the Toronto Star, "my initial reaction frankly is I was a little bit surprised and somewhat disappointed that the secretary isn’t better informed."
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