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...Monday, a senior Administration official speaking on condition of anonymity told TIME that after Brennan's trip, the U.S. intelligence community produced a finished-intelligence report noting that such "chemically triggered" bombs "would pose a particular challenge to screening efforts." Although there was no indication the bombs were intended for use against airliners, "our analysts did, however, assess that such IEDs of this new sort could be used in an aviation-focused attack," the official said...
...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 tasks what follow-up actions in response to specific threats." The official said that Obama and his national-security team "routinely ask for more detailed information and explanations of what follow-up steps are being taken to address particular threat streams and to respond to known terrorist threats." The official said Obama...
...mythology that we don't have competitive Senate races in Massachusetts," says John Kerry, Massachusetts' senior Senator. "Look back at those tapes of Bill Weld and I debating each other, or Ted Kennedy's epic race against Mitt Romney. This race is no different. It's a slog, and it's spirited, and Martha's coming out on top. But the frenzied press coverage should be a big fat warning to any Democrat who would let cold weather keep them away from the polls. It's Politics 101, you have to come out and vote...
...Given the North's long-established record of following periods of belligerence with a willingness to talk, Pyongyang's current sound track has been greeted warily in Seoul and Washington. Intense wariness is now deeply ingrained in the diplomats now dealing with the regime. Several senior South Korean officials tell TIME that, at best, they are now, as one put it, "skeptically optimistic, if that makes any sense...
...good news, sources in Seoul say, is that the South Korean government and the Obama Administration are "not only on the same page, but on the same paragraph" when it comes to dealing with the North, as one adviser to President Lee Myung Bak put it recently. One senior diplomat adds that his "gut instinct" is that the North will in fact return relatively soon to the nuclear bargaining table. But even if that happens, Seoul concurs with Bosworth's assessment, on returning from Pyongyang last month, that the sequencing of reciprocal steps by the two sides is likely...