proposed pipeline for years now. they initially reabouted to the letter saying, thanks, transcanada, got your letter, we ll get back to you and then responded today essentially, yeah, we understand you d like us to stop the review process for the pipeline but we ll go ahead and not do that. the state department says they intend to complete the review of keystone, a rhee view under way to great controversy for years now. i m not sure what transcanada was expecting for a response trying to pull the project but i imagine this wasn t it. given how long it s taken, it s it seems unusual to me to suggest that somehow it should be paused yet again. does he see this as something he wants to finish, complete, get off the plate before he leaves office? the president has said that before, yes. that he would like to have this determination be completed before he leaves office.
manifest and the crew list and haven t found anyone that was previously known to be connected with terrorism. now, of course, it could be someone that wasn t known and second way is the cargo and you re seeing this second layer of concern about people around the plane, the people who load the baggage and the mail and whatever else may be on that plane. one other point here about the british timing. i think one of the thing that is we heard earlier today is, you know, why did they do it right now? and it may not simply be a tipping point of physical evidence and intelligence. but also, the simple fact of the calendar. this is apparently the time, you know, here in the u.s., people change over on the weekend if they re going to go to the beach. you know? the new people come in on saturday and the old people leave. apparently we were approaching that changeover point for sharm el sheikh. apparently this time of the week and that was another factor that led to british to make this decision
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transcanada wrote to the state department asking that the u.s. government suspend the application to build that massive and hugely controversial pipeline to take hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil from tar sands country up in canada all the way down to the gulf of mexico. the pipeline, of course, the subject of widespread protests and very loud political activism not to mention loud partisan taunting from the republican side throughout the obama presidency. transcanada asking the obama administration to essentially shelf their application seems like basically the last we would hear about keystone for a very long time. certainly for the remainder of the obama presidency but a funny thing happened on the way of transcanada asking the obama administration to suspend the application for keystone. the obama administration has now said, no. we ll not suspend your application. this is kind of amazing. the state department got this letter from transcanada on monday. they have been reviewi