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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.

Needless to say O and Co. won't have the Newsweek reporter subpoenaed to find out who leaked this classified info. Double needless to say that O and Co. allowed this leak to their political brethern at Newsweak to shift blame to intel agencies by leaking only one bit of info and "declining" to leak the rest.