Posted on 01/01/2010 6:44:00 PM PST by Saije
President Barack Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the US, Newsweek has learned. The briefing was centered on a written report, produced by US intelligence agencies, entitled "Key Homeland Threats", a senior US official said.
The senior Administration official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said that nowhere in this document was there any mention of Yemen, whose Al-Qaeda affiliate is now believed to have been behind the unsuccessful Christmas Day attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down a transatlantic airliner with a bomb hidden in his underpants. However, the official declined to disclose any other information about the substance of the briefing, including what kind of specific warnings, if any, the President was given about possibly holiday attacks and whether Yemen came up during oral discussions.
According to the senior official, the holiday threat briefing, one in a series of regularly-scheduled sessions with top counter-terrorism officials, was held in the White House Situation Room on December 22. Present were representatives of agencies involved in counter-terrorism policy and operations, including Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FBI Director Robert Mueller. The CIA and National Intelligence Directors Office were represented by deputy agency heads: CIA deputy director Steven Kappes, and David Gompert, the principal deputy to National Intelligence Czar Dennis Blair. Also present was Michael Leiter, director of the National Counter-terrorism Center, a unit of the Intelligence Czar's office which was created after 9/11 to ensure that intelligence reporting about possible terrorist plots was shared quickly among all US agencies who might have some capability to do something about it.
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There is to such thing as terror, war on terror, or evil. We all love each other and need to try to understand other people more
There is to such thing as terror, war on terror, or evil. We all love each other and need to try to understand other people more
Of course not, the briefing probably focused on home grown threat like tea-party types, and veterans.
hic-up
He thumbed through it and flew to Hawaii so concerned was he.
OBAMA KNEW!
“. . . nowhere in this document was there any mention of Yemen . . .”
Well, there sure as heck should have been “mention of Yemen.”
When this old gal from Texas is aware of the threat, surely the National Security folks should be. And I’ve been hearing about terrorists training in Yemen for some time now.
He thumbed through it and flew to Hawaii so concerned was he.
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Guess he wasn’t “deeply concerned”, huh? /s
Ping.
Too busy worried about destroying our health care by getting the senate bill passed by Christmas. I don’t think the issue is the daily threat briefings that all presidents get. I am sure we would all be very nervous if we knew all the potential threats the president sees EVERY day. It’s about having the right policies and practices in place. Obama thinks if he goes out and apologizes to the world, everyone will love us and terrorism will stop. Instead these world leaders see Obama is weak, and laugh at him at every meeting. It’s almost embarrassing for us. Every world event he attends, he gets openly humiliated. Obama is the most inexperienced and worst president of modern times. Makes GW Bush look like a genius.
AKA the Three Stooges.
OK Newsweek, now explain to me and every other American why Obozo took three days to respond to the Undi-bomber, and why it took only two hours to respond to Cheney’s criticisms of Obozo’s overall performance.
The beatings will continue until morale improves ...
"Homeland"? There's a terror threat to Kenya? Who knew?
You forgot Henry Waxman. He’s charged with getting to the bottom of corruption and coverups in the White House.
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