Then another leak from another source to the WSJ saying everyone knew after than Nov 19th phone call; there was a big meeting the next day with people from all of the agencies.
The CIA seed had been planted. The media was running with that one.
Unfortunately for the WH, the CIA suffered a tremendous loss in Afghanistan. Even Rahm knows better than to falsely dump on the CIA while the bodies were still warm and not on home soil.
He simply revised his earlier plan.
As they say in politics, timing is everything.
REFERENCE Obama's dangerous denial
By Charles Krauthammer
FR Posted Jan. 1, 2010 by rhema
EXCERPT The reason the country is uneasy about the Obama administration's response to the attack is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension. From the very beginning, Pres Obama has relentlessly tried to play down and deny the nature of the terrorist threat we continue to face.
Napolitano renames terrorism "man-caused disasters." Obama goes abroad and pledges to cleanse America of its post-9/11 counterterrorist sins. Hence, Guantanamo will close, CIA interrogators will face a special prosecutor, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed will bask in a civilian trial in New York — a trifecta of political correctness and image management.
And just to make sure even the dimmest understand, Obama banishes the term "war on terror." It's over — that is, if it ever existed. Obama may have declared the war over. Unfortunately, al-Qaeda has not. Which gives new meaning to the term "asymmetric warfare." And produces linguistic — and logical — oddities that littered Obama's public pronouncements following the Christmas Day attack.
In his first statement, Obama referred to Abdulmutallab as "an isolated extremist." This is the same president who, after the Fort Hood shooting, warned us "against jumping to conclusions" — code for daring to associate the mass murder there with Nidal Hasan.........Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...