White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan is maintaining the system to protect the U.S. against attack worked successfully this year apart from the Christmas Day bombing attempt — a claim that seems to downplay the notion that deadly attacks at Fort Hood in Texas and a military recruiting center in Arkansas represented a failure of intelligence gathering.
Asked Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press” about the lead-up to the Christmas Day attack, Brennan said, “Every other day the system has worked this year....The system is working. It's just not working as well as it needs to constantly.”
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Brennan: Deal ‘on the table’ for terror suspect
The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday.
Asked why Abdulmutallab should cooperate given his right, as criminal defendant, to remain silent, Brennan replied: “He doesn't have to but he knows there are certain things that are on the table... if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that.”
Asked if Abdulmutallab's willingness to talk changed once he had an attorney, Brennan declined to answer. “I'm not going to address what he did before or after he talked with a lawyer,” the adviser said.
Brennan declined to say what criteria are used to decide whether a prisoner should be taken into criminal court or before a military commission. “There are no downsides or upsides in particular cases,” he said. “What we're trying to do is make the right determination in particular cases.”http://bit.ly/5iJmSq
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