Posted By LambChop
Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has been caught in the Obama administration’s web of lies. Napolitano claimed that “major” airports have experienced huge delays in security as a result of the sequester. No airports have experienced any of these falsely reported delays.
Napolitano said that major airports were seeing lines "150 to 200 per cent as long as we would normally expect" as result of the federal spending cuts that went into force on Friday. "We're already seeing the effects at some of the ports of entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this weekend,"
Napolitano was then pressed for specific airports and she cited Chicago's O'Hare, Atlanta's Hartfield-Jackson and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), adding: "I don't mean to scare, I mean to inform."
The UK’s The Daily Telegraph, then contacted spokespeople for both O'Hare and LAX, as well as representatives from the travel industry, denied that airports had been hit by delays.
Marshall Lowe, a spokesman for LAX : "We haven't had any slowdowns at all.”
DeAllous Smith, a spokesman for Hartfield-Jackson: "There have been no abnormally long lines at the security checkpoint nor unusual aircraft delays at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as a result of sequestration."
Karen Pride, the director of media relations at Chicago Department of Aviation: “No unusual delays or cancellations.”
Apparently the TSA has also been barred from commenting on the subject of sequestration said Luis Casanova, a regional spokesman for the Transport Security Administration (TSA), said "we've been asked not to comment on the subject [of sequestration]" and referred calls back to Napolitano's DHS.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9908416/Airports-contradict-Janet-Napolitanos-sequester-claim.html
An Obama administration official lied? I am OUTRAGED (to quote Sheila). Say it isn't so!!
In related news, White House tells agencies NOT to make cuts less severe that the Chicken Little histrionics already published.
'Merica.
Posted by: German Shepherd | 03/05/2013 at 06:41 PM