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...According to the report, intelligence-community leadership, presumably including top brass Leon Panetta at the CIA, Michael Leiter at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and Dennis Blair at the office of the Director of National Intelligence, "did not increase analytic resources" to address the threat of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), even after it became clear that the group was planning attacks on U.S. targets...
...report found that the "all-source analysts" at the CIA and NCTC had enough information to disrupt the attack, but the dots were never connected. "[In] both cases, the mission to 'connect the dots' did not produce the result that, in hindsight, it could have," it said. In the analysts' defense, the report notes that the information "was fragmentary and embedded in a large volume of other data...
...report suggests that these analysts were not being tasked properly, given the known effort by AQAP to attack the U.S. homeland. "Analytic focus during December was on the imminent AQAP attacks on American and American interests in Yemen, and on supporting [counterterrorism] efforts in Yemen," the report reads...
...report blames both the White House and the national-security staff for failing to identify the possibility that analysts would miss such crucial information. In a statement to the press after the President spoke, Brennan, who leads counterterrorism efforts at the White House and conducted the probe himself, seemed to take responsibility for this part of the failure. "I told the President today, I let him down," Brennan said. "I am the President's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism. And I told him that I will do better, and we will do better as a team...
...widespread condemnation of Wickrematunge's murder did little to change the restrictions on the media. For months after the civil war was declared over, journalists were not permitted to travel to or report in the former conflict zone in the island's north, and they still need permission to visit camps where those displaced by the war remain, or to speak with those who have returned to their former villages. Similar authorization is required to visit and write on the accelerated development and resettlement process now under way in the Vanni, the former conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka...