. Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:21:05 -0500 (EST) From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Net-Gold <Net-Gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Temple University Net-Gold Archive <net-gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Temple Gold Discussion Group <TEMPLE-GOLD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Net-Gold <net-gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sean Grigsby <myarchives1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Educator Gold <Educator-Gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Educator Gold <Educator-Gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, K12AdminLIFE <K12AdminLIFE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Net-Platinum <net-platinum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Net-Gold @ Nabble" <ml-node+3172864-337556105@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, MediaMentor <mediamentor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Digital Divide Diversity MLS <mls-digitaldivide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Health Diet Fitness Recreation Sports <healthrecsport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Health Diet Fitness Recreation Sports Tourism <healthrecsport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, HEALTH-RECREATION-SPORTS-TOURISM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: TERRORISM : SECURITY : INTELLIGENCE : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: Obama Sharply Criticizes Intelligence Agencies over Bungled Bomb Plot . TERRORISM : SECURITY : INTELLIGENCE : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: Obama Sharply Criticizes Intelligence Agencies over Bungled Bomb Plot Obama Sharply Criticizes Intelligence Agencies over Bungled Bomb Plot Video Obama cites intelligence failures, steps to improve securityCiting the failed attempt to bring down a Northwest passenger jet, the president says that the "intelligence community failed to connect the dots" and lists some of the steps he ordered to strengthen national security.
By Michael A. Fletcher and William Branigin Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 5, 2010; 6:02 PM Washington Post<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ article/2010/01/05/AR2010010501741.html>
A shorter URL for the above link: <http://tinyurl.com/ygm3z4q>President Obama rebuked the U.S. intelligence community Tuesday for a "potentially disastrous" failure to detect an airline bombing plot, saying it ignored various "red flags" and failed to pull together pieces of information it already had that could have enabled authorities to stop a would-be suicide bomber from boarding a Detroit-bound plane with hidden explosives on Christmas Day. He called the intelligence breakdown intolerable and vowed that "we will do better" in the future.
On his first full day back at the White House after an 11-day vacation in Hawaii, Obama briefly outlined preliminary findings in a review he has ordered of "human and systemic failures" that allegedly allowed a radicalized young Nigerian to smuggle explosive chemicals aboard a Northwest Airlines jet and attempt to bring it down as it approached Detroit with nearly 300 passengers and crew.
Declaring that "the system has failed in a potentially disastrous way," Obama said elements of the U.S. intelligence community knew that Abdulmutallab had traveled to Yemen and joined up with extremists there. He added: "It now turns out that our intelligence community knew of other red flags: that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula sought to strike not only American targets in Yemen but the United States itself." He referred to a branch of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network that operates in Yemen.
"The U.S. government had sufficient information" to have uncovered Abdulmutallab's alleged plot, "but our intelligence community failed to connect those dots," Obama said. "This was not a failure to collect intelligence," he added. "It was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence we already had."
He said he "will not tolerate" such intelligence failures. "We have to do better, and we will do better."
Obama did not name any specific components of the intelligence community, which consists of 16 agencies overseen by a director of national intelligence.
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