Posted on 12/30/2009 7:44:29 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
The U.S. government had intelligence from Yemen before Christmas that leaders of a branch of Al Qaeda there were talking about "a Nigerian" being prepared for a terrorist attack, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
A senior official told the Times that President Obama was told in a private meeting Tuesday while vacationing in Hawaii that the government had a variety of information in its possession before the failed bombing on a Detroit-bound flight last week that would have been a clear warning sign had it been shared among intelligence agencies.
The newspaper said the information did not include the name of the Nigerian.
A CIA official prepared a report on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab after a meeting with the suspect's father in November, who shared information about his son's extremist views, CNN reported Tuesday. The report was sent to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, but it sat there for five weeks and was not disseminated, a "reliable source" said.
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Coming from a prison guard family, I never cease to think about all of the “Nation of Islam” converts/ex-cons roaming the streets *right now*.
Ask any prison guard.
NOI members would kill us cheerfully the second they thought they could get away with it.
Well, it can’t possibly be true that Al Qaeda was “preparing” a terrorist because the President said he was a lone actor, not part of any network. The President wouldn’t lie to us about his Muslim friends, would he?
In other words, it looks like they were in on the plan.
Hillary is no longer a Senator, so who is going to hold up a newspaper and shriek, “Obama knew!!!!!”?
Looks like BO got “walled in’ by his own wall....and Penetta hasn’t bailed him out...Maybe Penatta is waiting to testify before congress.
As we know the NY Times is the propagandist of choice for the WH, there's no doubt this "reliable source" was told to dump this information to deflect attention away from the WH toward the CIA. This type of crap will fuel a war, the kind of which the WH will regret starting. Panetta will have no choice but to defend his agency and to do so will mean there will be a WH target.
They did everything except hire a skywriting plane to fly over the White House depicting the flight and seat numbers.
Wasn’t it the libtards who whined and belly ached about President Bush “not connecting the dots”? These fools aren’t qualified to pick up horse turds in Central Park.
Yep, are the liberals going to stand up and charge that Obama and his team failed “to connect the dots” on this one???????? Just wondering when the liberal meltdown of connecting dots will happen.
Has anyone in the MSM said anything about the fact that they still want to kill us? After Obama has apologized for America and made nice with the Muslim world, this type of thing should not be happening, according to liberals. According to them, we went through eight dark years in which the world hated us. Now they allegedly love us, so why in the sam hill do we still face terror threats???????????
I would love to ask that of Obama, Napolitano, Hillary, etc. I wish somebody would ask this in a press conference. Would love to see what they say to such questioning.
I look for him to fire Napolitano over this, but that won’t cure the problem. HE is the problem. HE with the bowing, apologizing, and refusing to call Islamic terrorism what it is. HE is the weakest link.
Hmmmm, sounds like a MIHOP, but could still fall under the LIHOP until more evidence points to the sheer incomepetence of Obamaland.
How is it possible that Janet Big Sis Incompetano still has a job?
I guess people must die to convince Obamaland that they are idiots....
Sad day that will be for America...
Mele Kalikimaka.....
All were wearing snorkel gear ...
The presidential motorcade drives along Kalaniana'ole Highway, taking the Obamas to Hanauma Bay.
He will fire Nepolitano and replace her with someone even more inept.
Where’s a good rock slide when you need one?
Stupid ****s.
She should have been gone on day one of this but I don't think he'll fire her. Somehow, she doesn't strike me as the type to take the entire fall without talking.
Jamie Gorelick built that wall, Bush did his best to tear it down and the Obumbler put people in place whose first act was to rebuild the walls. Unless the various alphabet agencies can be used to spy on and oppress the people, Obama wants them to have as little power as possible.
“In other words, it looks like they were in on the plan. “
And the Truther Twos are born!
I personally think it was the center fuel tank, igniting from a spark, because fire can’t melt steel. Besides, the flag could not flap in a vacuum.
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