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President George W. Bush was widely criticized for failing to focus before 9/11 on what U.S. intelligence knew of al-Qaeda's threat to America. But was President Barack Obama similarly remiss in the months before the attempted Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner? So far, the White...
Obama ordered a review in the days after Christmas on the lapses that had allowed a suspect known to U.S. intelligence to board an airliner allegedly carrying explosives on his body. On Jan. 7, the President's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, laid out what he said were the facts...
It took more than a year for reporters to discover the existence of Bush's Aug. 6 PDB, but already questions are being put to the White House about Obama's briefings. Did any possible AQAP threat to the homeland ever appear in a PDB or any other briefing? How...
Was any of this conveyed to the President? Said the senior Administration official: "We are not going to comment on specifically what was included in PDB product or whether President Obama was briefed on a specific matter at a specific time. Also we are not going to comment on who...
We still don't know what, if any of this, the President was told or what he did about it. The Administration has appointed former CIA chief John McLaughlin to investigate the matter further. And that means it may be weeks, if not months, before we can draw final conclusions...