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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I don’t think BO is running the show....He’s controlled, manipulated, handled by the “CHicago THugs” and their handler(s).
So Axelrod would assume all the power....Little Tommy would just jump when told to do so.
I heard that, but didn't hear the other predictions by the panel, did you?
Yes, I agree and they’re all indebted to George Soros, IMO.
Don’t kid yourself...They’re lying through their teeth. He should be getting a security briefing every day
briefed every day” I go to Politico44 everyday and at first it had him getting one. Now since his vacation they don’t list it. I also noticed it was later and later in the morning.
Gosh! That sure has a familiar "ring" to it...
bump
He gets a daily briefing... about what Sarah Palin has posted on her Facebook page. Have to develop strategy to counteract right wing radicals.
Obama is so out of touch how we boys eat ice cream in America.
Apparently his thousandth vacation where he can parade himself as Dear Leader was much more important than protecting the country and its people.
I think Soros is pulling the strings and a few selected others...
Rahum won’t be stepping down apart from the plan long beforehand already designating who steps up and when.
....the idea is to keep the pawns moving when necessary...actually smart, as we’ve been this way before. Protects alot of people in the long run.
Yes, I agree with you, too. These Chicago thugs are very clever and maybe too clever. I’m all for keeping GITMO open... to eventually house them. Although, on second thought, they deserve basement cellars.
New Gitmo Residents..oh yeah! Dream on..but the idea is fun to imagine...and all Freepers hired to oversee their care...tsk tsk. What fun would that be!!!! Waterboarding more than the ocean waves there! I better hush...
Keeping track of these “cleaver” but dangerous thugs is no picnic as you know. I remember when they first took office and did a Tv tour of their offices in full operational mode. Did you notice on one of the staffs desk was a Highly classified folder..just laying right out there? The amazing thing was Hiiary was being filmed and her eyes were on it like lightening speed..what to do? Camera was in motion.
Dayum, I missed that TV tour. I’m so anti this administration, I make a concerted effort to avoid all unofficial news about it and the punk-in-chief. I would loved to have seen Hillary’s eyes when she spotted that file.
LOL. I hadn’t thought about the fun that waterboarding in the Caribbean Sea would bring. Ooops, lost one. Oh well. Shark food.
I’ll not forget that moment...you could see she so wanted to roll that girls head ... and I often wondered what happened after the cameras were gone.
The sharks would spit them out and they’d float down to the scavengers...where they belong!
LOL. I wish you a very Happy and Healthy New Year, dear caww!
Systemic failure...
Are you kidding me!?? Despite the title, this article does everything possible to try and absolve Obama of any responsibility! Clearly, the article is posted by a very friendly reporter who lays out Rahm Emmanuel’s talking points, basically that it’s the intelligence community’s fault for not being more specific, and that Obama is even increasing our intellegence capacity in Yemen.
Pfffft.... this is a plant story put out by Emanuel and conveyed by a willing aide, Newsweak.
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