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To: onyx

Leaks by senior aide and intelligence officials ... pointing at Blair???

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/31/news/news-us-security-airline-intelligence.html

A senior aide said Obama would seek accountability at the highest levels, stoking fears in the intelligence community of a shake-up. Another official said the review would show “where the dots should have been connected” and why they were not.

Two officials said a focus of the White House review was what happened to intelligence after it was relayed to the National Counterterrorism Center, created in 2004 to collect, integrate and analyze the information as it is gathered.

U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said spy agencies picked up important information about the suspected would-be-bomber, 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and about the intentions of al Qaeda leaders in Yemen, in the months before the attempted bombing.

The intelligence trail began at least four months ago, when the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted communications between al Qaeda leaders in Yemen discussing the possibility of using a “Nigerian” bomber, according to one official briefed on the intelligence.


131 posted on 01/02/2010 4:57:03 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief; onyx; SierraWasp; Grampa Dave
Just posted that ...originally from Reuters:

Plot Exposes Fissure In U.S. Intelligence Community (Flight 253 Bomb Plot )

Was trying to figure out which side might have written it.

153 posted on 01/02/2010 8:37:40 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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