Obama Admin. Missed More Signs Of An Impending Terror Attack Than Acknowledged By Crotch-Bomber Report

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Here is Obama’s remarks after the Christmas Day Bomber:

“The buck stops with me.”

“I am less interested in placing blame.”

Nice words.

But when it comes down to it, the Administration hid much of the ineptness inside that administration and how they are fighting this war. The New York Times explains the nuts and bolts, but we know what it all comes down to. They just don’t believe we are at war. I mean come on, it’s just some folks who don’t like us, so we need to find a way to get them to like us.

Worried about possible terrorist attacks over the Christmas holiday, President Obama met on Dec. 22 with top officials of the C.I.A., F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security, who ticked off a list of possible plots against the United States and how their agencies were working to disrupt them.

In a separate White House meeting that day, Mr. Obama’s homeland security adviser, John O. Brennan, led talks on Yemen, where a stream of disturbing intelligence had suggested that Qaeda operatives were preparing for some action, perhaps a strike on an American target, on Christmas Day.

Yet in those sessions, government officials never considered or connected links that, with the benefit of hindsight, now seem so evident and indicated that the gathering threat in Yemen would reach into the United States.

Just as lower-level counterterrorism analysts failed to stitch together the pieces of information that would have alerted them to the possibility of a suicide bomber aboard a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christmas, top national security officials failed to fully appreciate mounting evidence of the dangers beyond the Arabian Peninsula posed by extremists linked to Yemen.

Mr. Obama this month presented his government’s findings on how the plot went undetected. But a detailed review of the episode by The New York Times, including more than two dozen interviews with White House and American intelligence officials and with counterterrorism officials in Europe and Yemen, shows that there were far more warning signs than the administration has acknowledged.

The officials also cited lapses and misjudgments that were not disclosed in the declassified government report released Jan. 7 about what went wrong inside the nation’s counterterrorism network.

In September, for example, a United Nations expert on Al Qaeda warned policy makers in Washington that the type of explosive device used by a Yemeni militant in an assassination attempt in Saudi Arabia could be carried aboard an airliner.

In early November, American intelligence authorities say they learned from a communications intercept of Qaeda followers in Yemen that a man named “Umar Farouk” — the first two names of the jetliner suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab — had volunteered for a coming operation.

In late December, more intercepts of Qaeda operatives in Yemen, who had previously focused their attacks in the region, mentioned the date of Dec. 25, and suggested that they were “looking for ways to get somebody out” or “for ways to move people to the West,” one senior administration official said.

And the same day those White House meetings on terrorist activities took place, a Qaeda figure made ominous — and seemingly prescient — threats against the United States.

The Times describes how our intelligence was listening in on these fanatics but failed to pull it all together:

In the final weeks of the year, American intelligence officials, using spy satellites and communication intercepts, were intently focused on pinpointing the location of Qaeda fighters so the Yemeni military could strike them. By doing so, the American officials hoped to prevent attacks on the United States Embassy in Yemen, personnel or other targets in the region with American ties.

Yet they had unwittingly left themselves vulnerable, American officials now concede. Counterterrorism officials assumed that the militants were not sophisticated or ambitious enough to send operatives into the United States. And no one shifted more intelligence analysts to the task, so that they could have supported the military assaults by Yemen while also scrutinizing all incoming tips for hints about future attacks against Americans, one administration official said.

So, though intelligence analysts had enough information in those days before Christmas to block the suicide bomber on the Northwest flight, they did not act.

“We didn’t know they had progressed to the point of actually launching individuals here,” Mr. Brennan said on Jan. 7 at a White House briefing.

An administration official added, “The puzzle pieces were not being fitted to any type of homeland plot.”

Read those bolded parts again. Obama’s intelligence agencies ASSUMED that the enemy just wasn’t smart enough to attack the US. Nine years after 9/11 and we have people in this administration and in our intelligence agencies who forgot the 3,000 dead and just assumed these yokels couldn’t get it done.

Wow…..

Did Obama inherit some of these problems? Most definitely. But he didn’t inherit his beliefs on terrorism. Those beliefs lead him to treat terrorism as nothing more than a isolated criminal activity to be squashed by law enforcement. Unfortunately most law enforcement work is done after the fact. After the crime has been committed.

That’s the Democrats views in a nutshell. No preemptive strategies to win this war. Just call out the cops to take a report after the fact and then issue some memos.

Or maybe they can just worry about the Christians in our country, and those evil people who don’t believe in abortion, as his TSA nominee does.

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in a way all the the one who are part of the security under estimatd the ennemy is it also why they have produce so many roadside bombs that kill our owns i dont see any safe gadget to from a longrange or remotly explod those before any one or vehicule get onit we should be aware that the explosifs are their main way to play on the fear of the soldier who have to obey commander and move on those danger roads and too many die before fighting the ennemy is in it a priority to create that gadget from our bright minds also how can you cut the effect of their remote on their bombs cant we do the same thing for the ennemy? thank you.

Our “leaders” are so blinded by political correctness! It is truly pathetic.

What Leaders? The Absence of Leadership is quite readily apparent. It should be pretty clear that “the buck stops” with the funerals for the victims. The Reports are done CYA style with zero Accountability or Responsibility determined and no actions forthcoming except a vigorous sweeping of facts under the rug.

Now for some more blundering that needs some serious attention lest it repeat itself.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/hood_massacre_report_gutless_and_yaUphSPCoMs8ux4lQdtyGM

Pentagon Whitewash [Bill Bennett]

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDJmNDFlMTJkMTMxOTQ5NGIzMjhkNmVhZjhhMmJiNTY=

In summary:

“An Islamic terrorist was raised in the United States and given a pass throughout his professional career in the United States military. His allegiance was not to his country but to his radical religion. He told his colleagues of this again and again. He didn’t set off signals, he set off sirens. And nothing was done. The military leadership didn’t take his words seriously, even as we were at war with people saying the exact same things he was saying. And the culture of the Army that coddled him was too well-represented by the Army chief of staff who, after the rampage, said “As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

It was this thinking that led to us keeping Major Hasan in the Army and that diminished force protection. It was this culture that allowed a terrorist into the Army. It was this political correctness that led to the deaths of 14 innocents. And if you want to prevent another tragedy like this, you must end this infection of the mindset. I call it a tragedy because it was preventable. That it was not prevented is a shame on our institutions and indicative of a preemptive cultural surrender that I never thought would affect the U.S. military but, sadly, dangerously, has.

UPDATE: I should note that the panel that produced this report was co-chaired by Admiral Vern Clark, U.S. Navy (Ret.) and Togo West, Jr., who was Secretary of the Army for a time under Bill Clinton. In a sense they bear primary responsibility for this shocking evasion of a report. In another sense, however, they are simply the agents of a criminally mindless culture that is undermining not only our ability to “protect the force” but our ability to protect our society.”
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Both West and Clark are Clinton Era slugs. The Protecting the Force Report is of the same tarnished and whitewashed quality as the 911 Commission Report which did not address the numerous disconnects between Intelligence Agencies, the FBI, ICE and DOJ in general.

Mr. Clinton’s Jamie Gorelick and Janet Reno are responsible for those disconnects, both Clinton appointees. Team Obama is asleep at the switch as well. His head of DHS is clearly unqualified for her position and values “diversity” over National Security. The Dept. of State Embassy personnel issues travel VISAs for entry to the US to Islamic radicals and no questions asked. Ineptitude, Incompetence. Irresponsibility, Political Correctness and a lack of due diligence in National Security are all over this business.

Link to the Pentagon Report:
http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/01/15/33006-protecting-the-force-lessons-learned-from-fort-hood/

It is a 12mb PDF file that can be downloaded from army.mil for your reading enjoyment.

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