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February 3, 2010
How Barack botched the Christmas Day Jihadist Incident
Topics: Political News and commentariesIn looking at this Stephen Hayes report at The Weekly Standard:
[...] One of the greatest concerns about the handling of Abdulmutallab is that FBI interrogators -- in their initial 50 minute interview -- questioned him without the benefit of the information the U.S. intelligence community had collected on him in the six months prior to his attack. Mueller confirmed this, saying, "we did not have much information at 3:30," when Abdulmutallab was initially questioned. Mueller testified that they had gathered more information on Abdulmutallab to use in his second interrogation. But when the "clean team" met with Abdulmutallab some five hours later to read him his rights, he stopped talking. So despite the fact that the intelligence community had compiled a dossier on Abdulmutallab -- which included information from his father and from intercepts -- none of that information was used to question him for five weeks after he was detained.And taking into account this point made by Senator Kit Bond made in a recent conference call, it is indeed abundantly clear, as Dan Riehl points out, what most definitely should have been an intelligence operation became a law enforcement issue, weakening the effort in terms of national security. And no amount of spin, whatsoever, can change that fact.
Meanwhile, the AP reports that senior U.S. intelligence officials have told Congress that Al-Qaeda can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months. I don't know about you, but given Barack Obama's record of handling terrorists and preventing terrorist attacks, I'm not feeling very safe and I'm likely to feel less safe as each day goes by.
Posted by Richard at February 3, 2010 2:20 PM
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