Jan 6, 2010 1:11pm
White House to Release Unclassified Version of Intell Review Tomorrow
EmailThe White House says that an unclassified version of the review of intelligence failures that led to the failed Christmas Day attempt to explode Northwest Flight 253 will be released Thursday.
The review, conducted by White House homeland security adviser John Brennan, will pinpoint the various failures of the intelligence community to "connect the dots," as President Obama put it on Tuesday.
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When is Obama going to release all the info on the Ft Hood attack?
I haven’t heard him mention the red flags ignored about Major Hasan.
And by a strange coincidence I’m sure, the MSM seems to have forgotten about Ft Hood too.
Posted by: kyle | January 6, 2010, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm
The National Counterterrorism Center was slated for deep budget cuts in 2010.
Obama didn’t veto thousands of pork/earmarks, but he was willing to cut
money from counterrorism.
That’s how concerned Obama was about our security.
But the Christmas day bomber changed that idea.
Posted by: mick | January 6, 2010, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm
Gonna be hard for Obama to shake the image that he is a cream puff when it comes to national security.
Those pictures of him bowing are disturbing. Giving terrorist the same rights as citizens, the apology tour, refusing to say War on Terror, paying countries to take gitmo detainees.
But I’m sure that stern look on his face
while saying his team screwed up–well that will be enough for some people.
I think the Islamic terrorist totally approve of the way Obama has handled it.
Posted by: larry | January 6, 2010, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm
One-third of terrorist plots since 9/11 have happened in 2009.
Must be hard for Obama’s massive ego to process that.
Obama had such high hopes that the world would love him so much that terrorist would change their ways.
They seem to hate us even more, hate him as much as Bush, and probably respect him even less.
Posted by: millie | January 6, 2010, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm
The Ft. Hood shows way to much. 30 somethign people died. We will never get to see that stuff. Now the bomber on christmas day, we can see some of that. Nobody died in it, its a point the finger deal. These terrorist dont fear Obama at ALL! His be nice to everybody speech worked real good. They still want to kill us and always will
Posted by: ted | January 6, 2010, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
When is Obama going to release all the info on the Ft Hood attack?
Probably right after he tells Sen. Dodd that it was wrong to divert millions from airport security.
Posted by: Any Day Now | January 6, 2010, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm
millie,
The system worked. What else needs to be said?
Posted by: Janet N. | January 6, 2010, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
This was NOT a failed Christmas day attack…It has the whole world in Chaos. This is what terrorism does.. We were lucky the bomb did not take any lives.. but the attempt was successful…It’s all everyone is talking about…. Now lets note the stupidity of Obama and Eric Holder, they have no problem using drones to kill Terrorists, but find it unlawful if they capture a terrorist, not to grant him the full rights, granted to an average American.. Does this make you go DUHHH?
Obama well not admitt to the 2 other terrorist attacks on American soil. Ft Hood is definitely off limits for conversation as you can all see by the extreme silence by the Obama worshiping media
Posted by: Wake me up when bodies start falling from the sky | January 6, 2010, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm
“His be nice to everybody speech worked real good.”
It made the Iranians so happy they grabbed an Iraqi oil well and shot protesters. Success!
Posted by: Isfahan | January 6, 2010, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
When is Obama going to release all the info on the Ft Hood attack?
Any Day Now | Jan 6, 2010 2:02:46 PM
Probably about the time that it won’t harm an ongoing investigation for absolutely no reason.
Just to judge if our systems have improved over time, a question for the ABC research desk: How long did it take Bush to release an Intel Review of the shoe bomber affair? And based on it, are we seeing the same failures 8 years later still unaddressed (by either administration)?
Posted by: jhw539 | January 6, 2010, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm
Those pictures of him bowing are disturbing. Giving terrorist the same rights as citizens, the apology tour, refusing to say War on Terror, paying countries to take gitmo detainees.
larry | Jan 6, 2010 1:45:31 PM
Right, you should just ignore his actions – shooting Somali pirates in the head rather than negotiating, increasing assassination by drone in Pakistan, tripling the force count in Afghanistan, approving cruise missile attacks on Yemen terror bases BEFORE they spawned the underwear bomber (wonder if those smoking holes distracted the bomb makers as he did the final prep?), etc.
Actions mean nothing if Obama isn’t willing to whip up some fear! Americuns want a good ‘ol war, like the war on drugs, poverty, and other wars without end.
Posted by: jhw539 | January 6, 2010, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
This administration has everything bassakwards re: transparency. Neither the American people nor our enemies need to know everything about failed or successful techniques when it comes to preventing attacks on us. Our personal health care though, that’s a different story. WE DON’T WANT THIS HEALTH CARE BILL! Let the cameras in! Cowards!
Posted by: jennifert7 | January 6, 2010, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm
jhw:Actions mean nothing if Obama isn’t willing to whip up some fear! Americuns want a good ‘ol war, like the war on drugs, poverty, and other wars without end.
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I find this mocking hilarious, considering the preceding paragraph listed all the war activities Obama has engaged in.
Posted by: MayBee | January 6, 2010, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm
Americuns want a good ‘ol war, like the war on drugs, poverty, and other wars without end.
Posted by: jhw539 | Jan 6, 2010 2:15:24 PM
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Goodness, you’re not much a history buff, are you? You might want to go back and see how much democrats were involved in all those things you list. Sheesh.
Posted by: jennifert7 | January 6, 2010, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm
I find this mocking hilarious, considering the preceding paragraph listed all the war activities Obama has engaged in.
MayBee | Jan 6, 2010 2:27:03 PM
Humor was what I after, since I got a laugh out of the original poster’s earnest declaration that the guys who Obama has been bombing and shooting consider him a “cream puff” because he doesn’t *say* “war on terror”.
“We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.” Barack “Cream Puff” Obama’s Inaugural address,
Posted by: jhw539 | January 6, 2010, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm
Goodness, you’re not much a history buff, are you? You might want to go back and see how much democrats were involved in all those things you list. Sheesh.
jennifert7 | Jan 6, 2010 2:30:54 PM
Does the party who started them make them any less empty rhetoric? It’s the concrete actions, like Obama approving cruise missile strike in Yemen BEFORE the underwear bomber incident or Democrats creating Medicare over the dire warnings of it leading to totalitarian Communism in the 60′s, that matter far more.
Posted by: jhw539 | January 6, 2010, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
“We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.” Barack “Cream Puff” Obama’s Inaugural address,
Posted by: jhw539 |
Great quote. The followup? Not so much. Apologies have flowed, wavering on Afghanistan in the fall of 2009, setting withdrawal dates (yeah, you can’t outlast us).
And he said “we will defeat you”. So rare from a man who has an aversion to the word victory much less no policy for achieving it.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 6, 2010, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
It’s the concrete actions, like Obama approving cruise missile strike in Yemen BEFORE the underwear bomber incident or Democrats creating Medicare over the dire warnings of it leading to totalitarian Communism in the 60′s, that matter far more.
Posted by: jhw539 |
Given the release of six Gitmo Yemeni’s in Dec 2009, did Obama increase or decrease the number of jihadi’s in Yemen last month?
And only a Democrat would hail a program with tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities as some kind of gov’t success.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 6, 2010, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
Humor was what I after, since I got a laugh out of the original poster’s earnest declaration that the guys who Obama has been bombing and shooting consider him a “cream puff” because he doesn’t *say* “war on terror”.
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I don’t think that’s quite right.
The “war on terror” is and always has been more than bombing and shooting. It has been an intelligence war as well.
Intelligence obviously let us down in the Detroit bombing, and it’s important to know “why” as much as “how”.
Intelligence just took a hit in the bombing in Afghanistan. I think it’s going to be important to find out what happened there, too. And why.
We’ve had three attacks on US soil in the past year- 2 of them successful- that have had strong ties to Yemen.
For two of them- the successful ones- President Obama was/has been loathe to comment about those ties. Loathe to even admit them.
Now, maybe you are right and there is a lot going on behind the scenes and he is way on top of making sure all these things are being considered and evaluated.
But maybe I am right in my suspicion that this administration had become momentarily so blinded by it’s own ability to change hearts that they had taken the focus off looking at *new* intelligence and new threats.
NYT magazine this week has Obama listing his speech in Cairo as one of the top 3 anti-terrorism achievements of the year. That’s the kind of thing I find worrisome, not because I want missiles and bombings but because it is impossibly naive. Has there been a systemic breakdown because those at the top thought we were protected by popularity?
We’ll find out, I suppose.
Posted by: MayBee | January 6, 2010, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
And only a Democrat would hail a program with tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities as some kind of gov’t success.
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Nonsense, Republicans have done the same.
Posted by: tierra | January 6, 2010, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
We’ve had three attacks on US soil in the past year- 2 of them successful
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Which two terrorist attacks were successful?
Posted by: tierra | January 6, 2010, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
And only a Democrat would hail a program with tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities as some kind of gov’t success.
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Nonsense, Republicans have done the same.
Posted by: tierra |
Like this better?
And only an idiot would hail a program with tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities as some kind of gov’t success.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 6, 2010, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
And only a Democrat would hail a program with tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities as some kind of gov’t success.
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Nonsense, Republicans have done the same.
It’s not a matter of ‘liking’ something better, its a matter of you telling the truth.
Posted by: tierra | January 6, 2010, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
Which two terrorist attacks were successful?
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The two attacks on US soil with ties to Yemen were Hasan (Ft Hood), and Muhammed, who killed Private William Long, and wounded Private Quinton I. Ezeagwula when he opened fire outside an Arkansas military recruiting center. That happened in June.
Posted by: MayBee | January 6, 2010, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
its a matter of you telling the truth.
Posted by: tierra |
That’s rather ironic but I never meant to imply that only Democrats were idiots.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 6, 2010, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
Posted by: MayBee | Jan 6, 2010 3:30:06 PM
Maybee do you think it was a good idea for Cheney to release all those detainees back to Yemen? Is it possible the selection process failed?
Posted by: tierra | January 6, 2010, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm
That’s rather ironic but I never meant to imply that only Democrats were idiots.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | Jan 6, 2010 3:34:44 PM
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No, your original lie was this . . .
“And only a Democrat would hail a program with tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities as some kind of gov’t success.”
I simply pointed out your misrepresentation of the truth.
Republicans have done the same.
Posted by: tierra | January 6, 2010, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
I simply pointed out your misrepresentation of the truth.
Posted by: tierra |
Yes. You have done it three times now. I fixed it after the first time.
The irony is that you tell the same kinds of “lies” all day long.
The difference is I admit that I was wrong. I should have said “idiot” and not “democrat” but didn’t want to get censored.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 6, 2010, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
Why won’t these posts go through?
tierra- no, I think sending the prisoners to Saudi rehabilitation centers so they could get back to Yemen and rejoin alQ was, in hindsight, a really bad idea.
I want to learn from our mistakes, don’t you?
Posted by: MayBee | January 6, 2010, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm
I want to learn from our mistakes, don’t you?
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Yes, Cheney (or his process) made a mistake and it should be brought out, examined and corrected.
Posted by: tierra | January 6, 2010, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
The irony is that you tell the same kinds of “lies” all day long.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | Jan 6, 2010 4:01:48 PM
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Wow. You’re straight back at misrepresenting the truth again. Want to go for three in a row?
“And only a Democrat would hail a program with tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities as some kind of gov’t success.”
“The irony is that you tell the same kinds of “lies” all day long.”
Go for three . .. you can do it.
Posted by: tierra | January 6, 2010, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
Yes, Cheney (or his process) made a mistake and it should be brought out, examined and corrected.
Posted by: tierra |
Nonsense, Democrats have made mistakes too. Why do you lie about that?
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 6, 2010, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm
Yes, Cheney (or his process) made a mistake and it should be brought out, examined and corrected.
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Absolutely! I don’t know anyone arguing otherwise.
Posted by: MayBee | January 6, 2010, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
Once again, the mass tide of ill-informed Americans, are getting another dose of propaganda on terrorism, from our media and Washington politicians, including Pres Obama…. Since the 9/11 attack, more than 104,000 Americans have been murdered in America by Americans. That’s like having (4) four 9/11 events happen each year since 2001. So one Nigerian man who failed to blow up a plane landing at Detroit Airport, switched on our political propaganda machine, that stokes fear and paranoia in the minds of the masses of ill-informed Americans. Yet every year we murder 13,000 Americans in America, and our media and Washington politicians ignore this home grown terror. The Dept of Home Land Security, a $40 billion a year bureaucracy is a joke, and rips off of taxpayers whilst giving little protection to them. For example, each week 39,000 trucks (big rigs) leave the Port of Long Beach CA, but only 1,170 are stopped and searched, WHY is that? Yet every passenger is searched by TSA at our airports, Why is that?….. Now if one of those trucks leaving Port of Long Beach carries a dirty bomb and it gets triggered. Then the 9/11 attack will look like a small fire cracker by comparison. Remember 37,000+ trucks move through PLB every week and they are not searched. Listen up you Home Land Security dopes. Are you waiting for a massive human disaster to happen in Southern California, and then hold more meetings with Pres Obama to ask what went wrong! One more thing who are we to tell other countries they must beef up security at their airports. Do the words hypocrisy and arrogance come to mind!.
Posted by: GalacticCannibal | January 6, 2010, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm
Yes, Cheney (or his process) made a mistake and it should be brought out, examined and corrected.
Posted by: tierra |
Nonsense, Democrats have made mistakes too. Why do you lie about that?
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | Jan 6, 2010 4:33:24 PM
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Actually, I’m not stupid enough to say ‘only Cheney’ made a mistake. You were the one who said ‘only a Democrat would hail a program with tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities as some kind of gov’t success’. Republicans have done the same not ‘only’ Democrats. Clearly your statement is just not true.
Mine is. Smarten up.
Posted by: tierra | January 6, 2010, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm
Republicans have done the same not ‘only’ Democrats.
Posted by: tierra |
Nonsense. Please provide a quote or stop misrepresenting the truth.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 6, 2010, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
“The difference is I admit that I was wrong. I should have said “idiot” and not “democrat” but didn’t want to get censored.”
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | Jan 6, 2010 4:01:48 PM
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p.s. – Foghorn you’ve already admitted you were wrong. Weak, very weak.
Posted by: tierra | January 6, 2010, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
You do the work and get back to me.
Posted by: tierra |
Done. Didn’t find any. Please retract your lie.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 6, 2010, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
Foghorn you’ve already admitted you were wrong. Weak, very weak.
Posted by: tierra |
Yes I did. When will you admit you were wrong?
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | January 6, 2010, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
Foghorn you’ve already admitted you were wrong. Weak, very weak.
Posted by: tierra |
Yes I did. When will you admit you were wrong?
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | Jan 6, 2010 6:10:34 PM
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I wasnt’ wrong dearie – you were – as you admitted.
Posted by: tierra | January 6, 2010, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm