Airports contradict Janet Napolitano's sequester claim (Representatives, Congress, Pelosi, spokesman)

[Little-Acorn]

The Obama administration continues its long habit of reciting laughable lies to the American public, and then trying to set policy as though they were true.

Didn't George Orwell write about this very technique?

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Airports contradict Janet Napolitano's sequester claim - Telegraph

Airports contradict Janet Napolitano's sequester claim

Airports have denied a claim by Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, that the sequester is already causing long delays for travelers at security screening checkpoints.

Janet Napolitano said lines at airport security checkpoints had dramatically lengthened because of the sequester

by Raf Sanchez, Washington
6:21PM GMT 04 Mar 2013

Ms Napolitano said today 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," she told a breakfast event organised by Politico.

When pressed for specifics 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."

However, when contacted by The Daily Telegraph, spokespeople for both O'Hare and LAX, as well as representatives from the travel industry, denied that airports had been hit by delays.

"We haven't had any slowdowns at all," said Marshall Lowe, a spokesman for LAX. Mr Lowe said that he had been on duty over the weekend and received no reports of unusual security delays.

DeAllous Smith, a spokesman for Hartfield-Jackson, said: "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."

Their comments were echoed by Karen Pride, the director of media relations at Chicago Department of Aviation, who described operations at O'Hare as "normal" with "no unusual delays or cancellations".
When asked specifically about the cabinet secretary's claims, Ms Pride said: "I'm not aware of that. I've had no reports of that."

The Obama administration has been repeatedly accused of exaggerating the impact of the $85 billion in cuts as it seeks to pressure Republicans in Congress into replacing them with a mixture of spending reductions and tax rises.

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Originally Posted by Little-Acorn

The Obama administration continues its long habit of reciting laughable lies to the American public, and then trying to set policy as though they were true.

Didn't George Orwell write about this very technique?

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Yes.

[it's often referred to as politics]

[Frank DeForrest]

What a good idea its been to politicize airline security, next up is health care

[petch751]

What else do you expect from a Obama democrat.

[HappyTexan]

I find people in this administration are pretty arrogant and really don't care if what they say is proven false.
And then when confronted and asked to comment on their lies it's all "No comment" or "Hasn't returned calls".

They really don't care that they are lying to the public.
If they lie about this then it makes you wonder about the big issues/events..like Benghazi, F&F, bin Laden, etc.

This administration doesn't want cuts and have all their people out there telling lies to Americans to scare them and invoke outrage at the Republicans.

Pelosi's words were never more true:

"Whatever it takes"

[Dale Cooper]

And the lower IQ amongst us (0bama's base) believe every word they say.

[InformedConsent]

O'Hare had screening problems long before the sequester. Got there one morning for a flight only to find that there was only ONE security checkpoint line open with two carry-on scanner lanes for ALL of terminals one and two. Over 80 gates had only one security checkpoint line, on a busy morning. Yes, it took forever to get through security, and quite a few people missed their flights. The crowd was getting pretty angry to the point that I had very real concerns that an angry mob confrontation would erupt causing the TSA to shut the whole thing down.

What a farce.

[chuckmann]

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I wish there was some way to tell when Obama and his cabinet members are lying.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by chuckmann

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I wish there was some way to tell when Obama and his cabinet members are lying.

Well it used to be the press asking pointed questions and calling them on their lies right there when they made them.
Now, we're on our own. That or hunt for buried articles that provide the truth.

Sigh. This whole sequestration thing has been a disaster. One would think they would've learned their lesson when they got caught lying about teachers getting pink slips, or when they got caught lying about capitol janitors and security.