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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He's playing it even cooler than Bubba did....just ignore it like it didn't happen and it will go away....
All you need is love.
These dots practically connect themselves.
Just the headline makes me so angry.
Now to read the article. If you hear of another earthquake in Papua, you know that I’ve finished the article about The Great Pretender.
Seems to me the Yemen was all over the net at the same time, because of the Ft. Hood attack and the communications with the US citizen mullah who was hiding out there. Again..maybe he should be reading FR every morning before his “intelligence” briefing. More going on here than in the briefing room.
Does this mean we should all drive around with bumper stickers which read “OBAMA KNEW”?????
Don’t kid yourself...They’re lying through their teeth. He should be getting a security briefing every day.
As a rule, conservatives are far more well-informed, well read and wekk spoken people than liberals. Conservatives usually have the facts, statistics and history to back them up. All liberals have are lies, more lies and downright filthy disgusting lies.
:D Very Good!
Briefings don’t matter when you refuse to recognize that we have an enemy it is Radical Islamic Extremeists and they want to Murder Americans. I always notice how the Liberals want to label AL-QAIDA as the culprit because it fits neatly into their narrative about a distinct difference in Iraq and the rest of the world. However, it is folly to think that other terror groups and radical Muslim extremeists are not linked and bent on our destruction.
So Obama Let it happen on Purpose. Thank God and God alone that the bomb was a dud. What will he say after the next attack? The question that he needs to be asked is why more Americans must die before he defines what it is that is killing us.
Thats why the Homeland Security Scty Ms. Incompetano said that the system worked. Obviously they know ahead of time.
OBAMA KNEW!
LOADED UNDIES FLEW!
People fly, people die, Obama lies.
No warnings issued for possible Manmade disaster
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.
Who’s leaking what?
“OBAMA KNEW!
LOADED UNDIES FLEW!”
LOLz! Next Tea Party chant...
Obama lied, panties fried.
My guess: Leon Panetta, since it’s his agency that’s getting the major blame.
...and how long will it be before there’s a similar front page story with Obama’s picture on the front?I’m thinking we shouldn’t hold our breath.
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