EXCLUSIVE: Obama Got Pre-Christmas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to "Homeland"

Newsweek ^ | 1/1/2010 | Mark Hosenball

[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.

[PA-RIVER]

The lies about the “lone extremist”. All of us know that this was AlQaida. 300 people were almost blown away, and this guy lies. To me, It was unreal.

It shows he has no concern for American lives. None. We are in serious trouble. His appearance at Fort Hood was devoid of any emotion, and he also tagged that AlQaida hit as a loner.

Through willful negligence, he is intentionally allowing Americans to be killed to keep his Muslim brethren happy.

[txhurl]

Rahm is lacking part of a finger and for many years went around claiming that he’d lost it in military actions against the Israeli enemy in a tank. Course, if Rahm fought in the military of foreign government, that would negate his American citizenship (US citizens forfeit their citizenship when they serve in the military of a foreign government).

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That’s extremely interesting.

[GunnyBob]

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[philman_36]

...a high-level briefing...
It must have been a "brief" briefing.

[manc]

there is no doubt after watching this that he is a muslim

add all the no presents, no church and his appeasing to muslims then not one person can now say he is not and yet the media still try and deny this.

Hey media trolls watch this in his own words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY&feature=player_embedded

[manc]

there is no way they will mention it as obama is a muslim.

there is too much evidence now to say he is not and if the left wants to argue so what then I will argue that but to now say he is not a muslim isn’t going to work.

The man will not even mention radical islam, islamic terrorism instead he stays on vacation in HI

it’s a complete outrage and the media need to be now fronted about their disgusting bias and their agenda

[manc]

that’s because they know America it’s not his home nor has her in his heart like we do.

[Art in Idaho]

Let me tell you about my New Year's Day flight from Atlanta to Seattle. We're waiting at the gate area and here comes this (what looked like to me) tall American Black women all bedecked out in the usual female Muslim gear, you know, the silk headscarf and covered from neck to ankle with nice looking clothing (I don't know what they call it). Anyway, she waltzes up to the counter, gets a seat assignment, walks around the whole seating area looking for a seat. She had a tad of an attitude but maybe it was just me. The whole crowd looks like, "Oh Jesus, now what do we do?" Then a bearded Sikh guy (fwiw he "felt" okay, but who knows) waltzes up to the counter with his family - anyway he had that Sikh turban thingy on - and gets a seat assignment.

We just so happen were in the last row of the plane, 44, and the Muslim gal was 3 seats ahead of us, the Sikh guy was 2 seats ahead of us on the other side. I'm wondering, did they both get a crotch search? A total cavity search? I knew they hadn't, so it was tension city all the way to Seattle. Did anyone talk with them, interview them, like the Israelis do? I'm sweating bullets when she went to the bathroom. I honest to God almost didn't get on the plane. . .

Anyway, we made it, but unless things change, it's just a matter of time until 300 men, women and children get killed. There were a lot of kids on the plane. . .