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Osama bin Laden has claimed responsibility for the failed bombing of a Northwest airliner on Christmas. That's not surprising, but what should be is that it took him nearly a month to do so. Either it took all of that time for news of the plan to reach him...
This Administration has taken out more al-Qaeda high-level operatives, has been more aggressive in pinning them down ... than a lot of what's taken place previously. Having said that, our intelligence failures in picking up [Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk] Abdulmutallab show how much more has to be...
Three days after the attempted Christmas bombing of Northwest Flight 253, President Obama announced that federal air marshals would ride shotgun on more flights to and from the U.S. Armed, highly trained and unobtrusive, thousands of marshals are currently flying U.S. skies. But whether they can prevent airborne attacks is...
It's rare for a President to give the entire U.S. intelligence community a public dressing-down. Barack Obama just did it twice in a single week. If he seemed annoyed in his first response to the attempted Christmas Day bombing, he was practically seething in his second. "The U.S...
At the meeting, the heads of the intelligence agencies admitted to a string of mistakes that brought Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab within a fortuitous malfunction of blowing up Flight 253 over Detroit. The National Security Agency had known from an intercept in Yemen that al-Qaeda had recruited a Nigerian to...