Posted on 12/30/2009 9:39:01 AM PST by pissant
The CIA on Wednesday rejected accusations that it failed to share vital information with other US intelligence agencies that might have helped prevent last week's attempted plane bomb attack.
The intelligence agency rejected charges that it possessed, but failed to disseminate, information about Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab that might have led to his being placed on a no-fly list.
"We learned of Abdulmutallab in November, when his father came to the US embassy in Nigeria and sought help in finding him. We did not have his name before then," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano.
"Also in November, we worked with the embassy to ensure he was in the government's terrorist database -- including mention of his possible extremist connections in Yemen," the CIA spokesman said.
"We also forwarded key biographical information about him to the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)" Gimigliano said, referring to the government office tasked with compiling and integrating intelligence from various US agencies.
"This agency, like others in our government, is reviewing all data to which it had access -- not just what we ourselves may have collected -- to determine if more could have been done to stop Abdulmutallab," Gimigliano said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I wonder if Panetta was the source for the story in the WSJ? It came out after [?in response] the CIA was blamed by a ‘source’ for Jeanne Meserve.
They LET IT HAPPEN ON PURPOSE .... LIHOP...
It is important to comprehend why Hillary Clinton has disappeared. It is the State Department, Office of Consular Affairs, that is going to take the hit on this. Why? Because Homeland Security is sacrosanct.
If you know that your poll numbers are tanking and that G W Bush's numbers soared when the Pentagon and the twin towers were hit .... do you 'let' 300 of the unwashed sprinkle over Detroit while you are 'on vacation' to create a crisis which would rally people and give you an excuse for an even greater power grab?
A perfect storm of coincidence got this guy on the plane and still a lot of questions about how this all 'happened'
But I'm wearing tin foil right?
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YEP!
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Harry S Truman
Dropper of unique bombs
Not names or excuses
Lol, I couldn’t think of which President said that when I posted. He was blunt, and truthful.
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Yup
And FDR never put Truman in the loop on the Manhattan Project
Something politicians today should think about
Truman was a Vet
You have a good memory for all of that.
Rush is right! This guy is a MAN-CHILD!
Yes, as a Senator!!!
That was when he had no right to go at all. Or make any deals. I still can’t figure out why they would listen to him. Except Pelosi went to other countries and acted like she had powers too.
WHO IS OBAMA? He's a prop for the leftist establishment. They now have complete access to the US treasury, the banks, the auto companies....... and, soon, the health care system. Rahm's got his brother Dr Zeke in charge. Both will become billionaires after Obama and Congressional facilitators get a cut.
Liz, do you have links to your thoughts?
Axelrod created another campaign that I can't remember right now and he based Obama on the same strategy. Rock star appeal
Valerie has used Obama for greener pastures since he was a senator. Rahm is like mafia. His temperment does not belong in politics.
What is the cut these people will get?
I believe Obama is a puppet but only because he sold his soul to get where he is.Too many people know his past and now he has to tow the line and oay them back. If he speaks out against them they will spill the beans. But the links and signs of Obama's past, his radical relationships show Obama is not naive and fully understand everything he is doing.
If what you feel is true, then it means Obama could turn around and become moderate once he gets a clue.From your lips to God's ear. That would be wonderful for America.
I like your thoughts more.
Obama's COS Rahm Emanuel got rich overnight in the Chicago office of Wasserstein Perella & Co. as it was being acquired by Deutsche Bank----Emanuel got millions putting together a merger involving Chicago-based Exelon Corporation----- one of Axelrods biggest PR accounts.
Emanuel and fellow Chicagoan Axelrod (strategists for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign) are buddies. Axelrod signed the ketuba, a Jewish marriage contract, at Emanuel's wedding, an honor that is reserved for a close family friend or relative.
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Rahm controls the US Treasury---he put his brother Dr Zeke in charge of healthcare and Medicare/Aid billions.
Chicago Tribune, 04/05/2009
CHICAGO He's the oldest brother, a doctor and a scholar with a résumé the size of a small book. Though brothers Ari (a Hollywood operator) and Rahm are celebrities, he is the one they think could someday win the Nobel Prize. Ezekiel Emanuel has become something of a public figure, like his famous siblings, as he pursues a new challenge: trying to help the Obama administration reform the health care system. **SNIP**
Chicago Sun Times | Feb. 14th | Lynn Sweet
Posted on 02/15/2009 by william1970
Rahm's brother, Dr. Emanuel, has received numerous awards....election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science and the Association of American Physicians. Hippocrates Magazine selected him as Doctor of the Year in Ethics.....the AMA-Burroughs Welcome Leadership Award, the Public Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the John Mendelsohn Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and a Fulbright Scholarship (which he declined).
Dr. Emanuel served on President Clintons Health Care Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), and on the bioethics panel of the Pan-American Healthcare Organization. Dr. Emanuel has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA, the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and the Kovitz Professor at Stanford Medical School.
On the plus side, Dr Zeke was spit-shining his penny loafers when the subject of "death panels" surfaced.
Interesting connections.No doubt about Axelrod. Rahm and Holder have made out big time by being Anti American.
Geithner and Bernanke will and have made out like bandits too. Their positions seem to be creating the NWO while plundering America.
Ezekial has some strange evil healthcare ideas. But not any stranger than Daschle’s book. Daschle will be in charge of rationing healthcare as soon as everyone’s health records are available to him.
Obama does not have one moderate or conservative in his life. It’s kind of like the way you are raised is all you know?!
Keep me posted Liz if you come up with more. Thanks!
Here is the story on Axelrods strategy to get Obama elected. But like you said, empty suit, appears they dont get too far. Axelrod can create their personna but not their true characters.
http://bit.ly/7uU40t
parallels between the rise and fall of our first black governor Deval Patrick, and the rise and coming fall of the first black president,
DNI Blair contradicts FBI, acknowledges intel failure on Maj. Hasan
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair suggested last week that U.S. law and enforcement and intelligence agencies mishandled data related to the Fort Hood murder suspect, Army Major Nidal Hasan.
Blair [said] U.S. intelligence agencies connected the dots on the cases of Najibullah Zazi and David Headley, who were linked to Al Qaida and terrorist plots.
However, as the case of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, . . . shows, we must go even further in our efforts to turn intelligence into the knowledge needed to protect Americans, Blair wrote in an op-ed article.
It was the first official statement on the failure to act on intercepted emails linking Hasan to a radical cleric associated with Al Qaida.
The Politics of Incompetence
(Flight 253 a "political issue", not a security problem)
... as it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its most embarrassing failure in the area of national security, senior Obama White House aides, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and new White House counsel Robert Bauer, ordered staff to begin researching similar breakdowns -- if any -- from the Bush Administration.
This is why it took the Kenyan so long to make a statement while on his little vacation. His henchmen were looking for some way to, BLAME BUSH.
This cabal of criminals HAS to be removed from power when the GOP takes back the House in Nov, 2010. And right now 'President Biden' even sounds good.
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