(Click Image to Enlarge)Review of Jet Bomb Plot Shows More Missed Clues -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — 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.
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My Comment: It seems the more time that reporters are given to investigate this case, the more evidence comes out that makes us realize how lucky we were that the airline plot failed. I can only hope that this is a wake-up call for those who are responsible for our security .... that a new strategy and methodology must be applied to finding and stopping would be terrorists on airplanes.