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Michael Travis slipped this under the door.
New York Post:
US intel makes same 9/11 blunders: panel
WASHINGTON -- Despite a top-to-bottom overhaul of the intelligence community after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the security system showed some of the same failures nearly a decade later and allowed the Christmas Day underwear bomber to slip aboard an airliner, congressional investigators said yesterday.
The Senate Intelligence Committee report at times contradicted the Obama administration's assertion that the nearly catastrophic Christmas Day 2009 bombing attempt was unlike 9/11 because it represented a failure to understand intelligence, not a failure to collect and understand it.
The congressional review is more stark than the Obama administration's report. It lays much of the blame at the feet of the National Counterterrorism Center, which congress created to be the primary agency in charge of analyzing terrorism intelligence.
The NCTC is the government's clearinghouse for terrorism information and is the only government agency that can access all intelligence and law enforcement information.
Lawmakers found that the NCTC was not organized to be the sole agency in charge of piecing together terrorism threats.
"Some of the systemic errors this review identified also were cited as failures prior to 9/11," GOP Sens. Richard Burr and Saxby Chambliss wrote in an addendum to the report.
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Read the report here
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Learning From History?
Michael Travis slipped this under the door.
New York Post:
US intel makes same 9/11 blunders: panel
WASHINGTON -- Despite a top-to-bottom overhaul of the intelligence community after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the security system showed some of the same failures nearly a decade later and allowed the Christmas Day underwear bomber to slip aboard an airliner, congressional investigators said yesterday.
The Senate Intelligence Committee report at times contradicted the Obama administration's assertion that the nearly catastrophic Christmas Day 2009 bombing attempt was unlike 9/11 because it represented a failure to understand intelligence, not a failure to collect and understand it.
The congressional review is more stark than the Obama administration's report. It lays much of the blame at the feet of the National Counterterrorism Center, which congress created to be the primary agency in charge of analyzing terrorism intelligence.
The NCTC is the government's clearinghouse for terrorism information and is the only government agency that can access all intelligence and law enforcement information.
Lawmakers found that the NCTC was not organized to be the sole agency in charge of piecing together terrorism threats.
"Some of the systemic errors this review identified also were cited as failures prior to 9/11," GOP Sens. Richard Burr and Saxby Chambliss wrote in an addendum to the report.
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Read the report here
-
FBI Needs Better Intelligence, Information Sharing Newsmax: The FBI needs to strengthen its intelligence programs and information sharing to counter the diverse and fast-moving national threats that have evolved since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a congressional...
- “the Committee Finds That There Was No Intelligence Failure Prior To The Attacks”
Mike Rogers, et al of the House Intelligence Committee on BenghaziNEVER LET IT BE SAID facts not consistent with this writer’s expectation do not IMMEDIATELY get ‘air’The House Intelligence Committee has released its final report on BenghaziThe...
- Senate: Benghazi Was Preventable
Fox: Senate report: Benghazi attackers tied to Al Qaeda groups A comprehensive report by the Senate Intelligence Committee definitively declared that individuals tied to Al Qaeda groups were involved in the Benghazi attack, challenging recent claims that...
- Breaking: Blair Announces Resignation
UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST Well, that's one down. About time some fucking heads started to roll. Bloomberg: Obama Intelligence Chief Blair Announces Resignation May 20, 2010, 7:57 PM EDT By Nicholas Johnston and Jeff Bliss May 20 (Bloomberg) -- National...
- And The New Counter Intuitive Theory Of Comedy Continues....
So far this week we have had Iran on the UN women's rights council Then we had the mayor of New York try to blame the tea party or other domestic you know who extremists for the Times Square aborted bombing. And NOW..... Hoyer: Dems more...