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2010-01-03 Home Front: WoT

WH Adviser Briefed in October on Underwear Bomb Technique

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Posted by 2010-01-03 10:38|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The CIA has a knack for political leaking

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-03 10:51|| 2010-01-03 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Bullshi* flag down. It is phueching every analyst's job and agency to "connect the dots" and conduct accurate, predictive analysis. Al-Awlaki's comings and goings to include his toilet habits should have been known to all within US Intelligence. The fact that he was tied to 9/11 and the Fort Hood attack should have rang alarm bells everywhere. Agency heads should have been proudly displaced along the rail on the Arlington Memorial Bridge following 9/11. The fact that they were not is indeed telling.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-03 11:27|| 2010-01-03 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 It was bull$shit when they leaked to make Bush look bad, it is bull$hit now. Some people should be fired for the leak, even if it is correct info and Obama was full of it himself when he blamed the CIA for whatever. An intelligence agency should not dictate policy through leaks.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-01-03 12:47|| 2010-01-03 12:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Disband the CIA and let the DOD do what it needs to to support military operations.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-03 14:03|| 2010-01-03 14:03|| Front Page Top

#5 AMEN and AMEN! Too many individual and disconnected wars going on.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-03 14:14|| 2010-01-03 14:14|| Front Page Top

#6 The problem isn't present among the analysts, but in the political appointees that supervise places like the CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, DHS, State, and a dozen other agencies. These people often act as "gatekeepers" that keep information within their agency, instead of sharing it, or decide that such information "isn't plausible", and refuse to act on it. The professionals do a reasonably good job - it's the outsiders that don't understand the functions of such agencies, and screw things up. Heads SHOULD roll, especially at DHS, and possibly at State as well (there the problem is internal, where people bring personal biases to a technical job).

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-01-03 15:07|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/ 2010-01-03 15:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Excellent point and also an accurate one OP. It does not take the "gatekeepers" long to discover what pleases and displeases the.... 'boss.'

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-03 15:17|| 2010-01-03 15:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame were not political employees. Just the careerists whose names we know. The rot hay have started in the head, but it is now throughout. Shut 'em down.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-03 15:28|| 2010-01-03 15:28|| Front Page Top

#9 We have been calling for the beheading of Al Awlaki for a few years now. No one is listening, or wants to listn. This guy has walked the earth almost freely. He needs to be dealt with. OP is right, the guys on the ground are doing the best they can. The filters at the top need to get fired so the rest can work together.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-01-03 16:27|| 2010-01-03 16:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Problem with DHS (and TSA) is that, due to their rapid start-up, middle and upper career management were initially populated with individuals from other gov't agencies, whose ambitions far exceeded their capabilities.

Not good for establishing the correct 'culture'.

Posted by Pappy 2010-01-03 18:32|| 2010-01-03 18:32|| Front Page Top

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