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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All this money just has to be spent pronto for bailouts, GM, banks, borrowers in default, healthcare “reform” . . .
But not enough resources to check leads or lists of suspects or suspicious checking-in passengers.
Nice set of priorities we seem to have now
And they did nothing about it. Might interfere with golf. If this were Bush what would the reaction have been?
If the plane HAD blown up in the sky, the first words in the media would have been “this was not terrorism”.
President Obama rejected the report without reading it because it contained the forbidden word “Christmas”. < /fake but accurate >
....or Kevin Jennings,or Eric Holder,or.......
No luggage, one way ticket, cash payment, warnings from his own father. You simply can’t get more obvious than that.
Maybe if he fires Napolitano, he can appoint Biden to DHS instead. I’d feel so safe.
Who knows? Maybe it was one of those White people with blond hair and blue eyes from Nigeria.
“All this money just has to be spent pronto for bailouts, GM, banks, borrowers in default, healthcare “reform” . . .
But not enough resources to check leads or lists of suspects or suspicious checking-in passengers.”
olol, what a deformation of facts...
as far as i remember it was Mr. Bush who “spent” a few $$$ for a war in iraq with the intention to get rid of WMD (never found there) and to fight AQ (not there before the war), so if you want to blame a president blame the one who is responsible :D
“Homeland Security” is defined as the left being secured from criticism or blame by the MSM.
I hear that when they confiscated the bomber’s undies, they found printed on his penis with magic marker:
“Thank you, Obama, for letting me be myself.”
Oh ok, I’ll say it for you then . . . “Bush’s fault”
N-i-c-e take. You got that right.
Interesting that both Robert (the Slime) Gibbs and DHS Janet BOTH mouthed the same fatuous line ...."The System Worked."
Looks like they had all practiced what to say, beforehand.
Sadly, the fact that the plane did not blow up makes it less convenient for them. If it had blown up, I predict they would have claimed faulty landing gear or something else and it would have been a closed case.
0bama continues to impress...
Yep, Panetta is being set up to take the blame. The White House weenies are such a classless bunch.
You know Liz, JaNUT has had workshops (parties for the FAA) for three weeks.....None of them know the difference between a penis in panties and a bomb in boxers.
Hmm, sound like perfect candidates for Obama’s future goon squads.
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