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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Yep, they would have done everything in the world to deny that it was a terrorist attack. Obumbler was ticked that the terrorist was caught instead of blowing the airplane up.
Bet on it.
Oh come on...if youre honest you have to admit that your allegations are absurd.
If you blame Obamas politics for the security leak, you have also to blame the Bush administration for the complete intel collapse during summer 2001.
Intel Warnings from Russia, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, Morocco, Israel and several other countries had been “missed” and Condi stood and told the senate comitee “there was no way to foresee this attack”
I don't even know what to say.
lol——good one
Well, the best heads left the CIA after the “slam dunk” desaster
No they did not know it involved an airplane
“The presidential motorcade drives along Kalaniana’ole Highway, taking the Obamas to Hanauma Bay.”
Merely the MOST FAMOUS and POPULAR snorkeling and amateur surfing beach on all of Oahu. I wonder if they kicked everyone off the beach for that little junket as well?
Ask any prison guard.
NOI members would kill us cheerfully the second they thought they could get away with it.
Chilling words, Salamander...
It is closed Tuesdays to allow the fragile reef ecosystem to recover. Rules and ecology do not apply to this “earth friendly” president.
BS - This was just an isolated incident of a Nigerian bent on revenge for getting scammed by a US email about needing his help to get TARP and Stimulus money out of this country.
My “allegations” are far from “absurd”
Take off your Obama glasses and go back and read my original post. It was about priorities, do you disagree with that? I can find plenty of fault about Bush’s spending habits. National security should be paramount. . . or do you disagree with that also?
Buh Bye Leon Panetta!
Now you can go back to saving the oceans.
bush knew about the fact that terrorists were going to use planes as weapons and he did what?
nothing
the moral of the story is not to trust government and to keep up your guard.
Of course, I mean Zero is the Hypocrite.
yea, obama did the same thing bush did after he was told that terrorists were going to use planes as weapons. Some things never change.
Thanks. I understood.
And CIA has already come out with a list of people they immediately told about the report.
Obama's policy of "pass the buck stops here" has had a most interesting consequence of making these internecene squabbles into public fights.
I figured you did, but I wanted to make sure.
Sometimes the fonts don’t work out the way we plan them to. LOL.
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