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Obama Is Told of Signs That Should Have Grounded Plot (NY Times: Obama admin blew it big time)
The New York Times ^ | Tuesday, December 29, 2009 | Peter Baker and Carl Huse

Posted on 12/29/2009 7:28:18 PM PST by kristinn

HONOLULU — President Obama declared Tuesday that there had been a “systemic failure” of the nation’s security apparatus after being told about more missed signals and uncorrelated intelligence that should have prevented a would-be bomber from boarding a flight for the United States.

The president was told during a private briefing on Tuesday morning while vacationing here in Hawaii that the government had a variety of information in its possession before the thwarted bombing that would have been a clear warning sign had it been shared among agencies, a senior official said.

Two officials said the government had intelligence from Yemen before Friday that leaders of a branch of Al Qaeda there were talking about “a Nigerian” being prepared for a terrorist attack. While the information did not include a name, officials said it would have been evident had it been compared to information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit on Christmas Day.

The government also had more information about where Mr. Abdulmutallab had been and what some of his plans were.

Some of the information at the time was partial or incomplete, and it was not obvious that it was connected, the official said, but in retrospect it now appears clear that had it all been examined together it would have pointed to the pending attack. The official said the administration was “increasingly confident” that Al Qaeda had a role in the attack, as the group’s Yemeni branch has publicly claimed.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: Marine_Uncle
They are to busy sending me reams of mail to send more contributions.

A lot of trees are going into the recycling bin here.

41 posted on 12/29/2009 8:16:01 PM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: DCPatriot
I believe they are referring to the Tuesday BEFORE Christmas Day (Friday)

"The president was told during a private briefing on Tuesday morning while vacationing here in Hawaii"

Can't be last week, because he stayed in D.C. until Christmas Eve for the Senate health care bill vote.

42 posted on 12/29/2009 8:17:17 PM PST by FoxInSocks (B. Hussein Obama: Central Planning Czar)
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To: kristinn

Obama is a shill, a dumbass, idealistic fool.

No racism here, just plain old scorn and disdain.


43 posted on 12/29/2009 8:17:26 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: kristinn

“No way to blame this on Bush-Cheney-Halliburton.”

Ha! That is where you are wrong. The zero has already blamed Bush.


44 posted on 12/29/2009 8:18:38 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: Cicero
This might explain this little "olive branch" that the Obama administration threw out to the CIA today.

White House aims to calm intelligence agencies': report

45 posted on 12/29/2009 8:18:57 PM PST by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: patriciaruth

I think soon I shall take the plunge and become an independent.


46 posted on 12/29/2009 8:21:26 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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To: patriciaruth
Janet would be toast already if that plane had gone down.

I doubt it.

The media would have just labeled it "an accident" or "mechanical problems," and no one would have known about the terrorist plot (if all on board had been killed).

Thanks to that brave guy who tackled the perpetrator, 300 people are still alive today, and we have hard EVIDENCE that it was a terrorist act (although the Obama administration is loathe to call it one).

47 posted on 12/29/2009 8:22:54 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: Canedawg

“a lone wolf” per Juan Williams on Fox the other night.


48 posted on 12/29/2009 8:23:34 PM PST by mommab2003
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To: kristinn

wowww... the US Air Force has golf carts???.. they never gave me one to use while I was in !


49 posted on 12/29/2009 8:23:53 PM PST by rosco coltrain
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To: bigbob
I realize she is stupid but I think she was told to go with this story, from Hawaii.......then it didn't work. You are so right, she is now emailing her CV with her best qualification being the "canary in the mine" experience. Dammit, Janet, you screwed us!
50 posted on 12/29/2009 8:26:56 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: kristinn

Bad news, the terrorists smell blood big time because of this creep in the WH.


51 posted on 12/29/2009 8:31:08 PM PST by toddausauras
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To: Jess Kitting

Yeah, you’re right, they’d be withholding news of the chemical tests proving an explosive was used.

And that one of the passengers was on the watch list and his father had told the CIA he was fanatic.

But eventually the truth would have been leaked. And then finally Janet would have left for personal reasons.

Meanwhile, Christmas and the end of Obama’s first year would have been under a cloud; and people would have been upset and suspicious that he and his corrupt administration were withholding info and failing to do their primary duty to protect us.


52 posted on 12/29/2009 8:31:56 PM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: kristinn
intelligence from Yemen

An oxymoron.

53 posted on 12/29/2009 8:34:33 PM PST by Rocky (Obama's ego: The "I's" have it.)
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To: kristinn

New Obama sitcom: “Flight 253, where are you?” Starring goofy feds and those madcap bombers. They’re a laugh a minute.


54 posted on 12/29/2009 8:37:20 PM PST by Rocky (Obama's ego: The "I's" have it.)
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To: riri
Problem is, the administration really does not care if 300 Americans get blown up and it conveys.

Sadly there is something to that statement if the best Chuckie Schumer can do is tout his death penalty law. Whoop-te-do, Chuckie, you will punish the perp AFTER he kills people (and delivers a death blow to our economy). Small problem ... the perp is willing - and plans - to die in the process. There goes your deterrent effect.

It is WAR, you RAT idiots, not a law and order episode.

55 posted on 12/29/2009 8:39:28 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("'Diversity' is one of those words designed to absolve you of the need to think." Mark Steyn)
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To: riri
Problem is, the administration really does not care if 300 Americans get blown up and it conveys.

Sadly there is something to that statement if the best Chuckie Schumer can do is tout his death penalty law. Whoop-te-do, Chuckie, you will punish the perp AFTER he kills people (and delivers a death blow to our economy). Small problem ... the perp is willing - and plans - to die in the process. There goes your deterrent effect.

It is WAR, you RAT idiots, not a law and order episode.

56 posted on 12/29/2009 8:39:31 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("'Diversity' is one of those words designed to absolve you of the need to think." Mark Steyn)
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To: ricks_place

He sure doesn’t look like someone I’d want covering my behind in a fight, does he? Quite the wimp.


57 posted on 12/29/2009 8:39:55 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Marine_Uncle

I’m in California. It doesn’t matter what I call myself.

I’ve always liked the two party system, however. We make our coalitions before the elections, instead of after like in Europe.

That’s more honest. People see who is willing to deal with whom in order to get a majority vote to organize the House and Senate before they decide who they are going to vote for.

The Dems are willing to deal with the commies who want to destroy the country.

The question is if the conservatives will be willing to deal with the Reps who are often naive and stupid but don’t in their heart of hearts want the country to fail.

The commies got to the point where they were leading the Democrat party. Maybe if we could get to the point where conservatives were calling the shots in the Republican party, then things would go better.

But there aren’t enough conservatives who are willing to grind away at party politics and get to the point of running things. Conservatives go about their lives and then bitch and moan when standard issue Republicans are the ones sending out the mailers asking for contributions.

You need the long term planning and mind numbing dedication and year after year effort of the commies if you are going to defeat their take over of this country.


58 posted on 12/29/2009 8:44:49 PM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: kristinn
It's about connecting the dots ... CIA, FBI, and other relevant agencies can't get it together ... thus a Nigerian Islamic terrorist can essentially bypass every red flag warning and come within a hairs breath of blowing a U.S. commercial airline out of the air. Missteps such as this led to 9-11 ... the FBI was warned about middle eastern student pilots at U.S. flight training schools showing a strange indifference to landing instructions ... interested only in managing the aircraft (simulator) in the air. We all know how that turned out ...
59 posted on 12/29/2009 8:49:30 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: bayliving

They can’t very well blame Bush for doing what they “themselves are wanting to do now can they?”

You’re right about that, and I would love to watch it blow up in their faces.

But from the looks of it they’re going to try anyway. I don’t believe the comments about the terrorist being released from Gitmo during the Bush admin was just FYI.


60 posted on 12/29/2009 8:50:17 PM PST by Heart of Georgia
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