U.S. Government had Knowledge of Terror Plot Before Christmas

So, what happens when the U.S. had prior knowledge of an Al Qaeda planned terrorist plot being planned with the use of a Nigerian? It is now being made apparent they will do nothing.

It is now being announced the U.S. intelligence had prior knowledge of a terror plot prior to the Christmas attack. A Yemen branch of Al Qaeda was heard talking about a Nigerian being prepared for a terrorist attack and yet nothing was done with this information.

With the hundreds of billions being spent to keep America safe, why would reports like this be ignored? To top it off, why would Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab be ignored when getting aboard the Northwest Airlines flight, when he had no luggage? Once again common sense would tell most of us, with knowledge of a planned terrorist attack or not, that any individual getting aboard an international flight without luggage, would be enough suspicion to justify a close thorough inspection of his person.

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According to the New York Times, a senior official told the Times that President Obama was told in a private meeting Tuesday while vacationing in Hawaii that the government had a variety of information in its possession before the failed terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound flight last week that would have been a clear warning sign had it been shared among intelligence agencies.

A CIA spokesman confirmed the report Tuesday, saying:

“We learned of Abdulmutallab in November, when his father came to the U.S. embassy in Nigeria and sought help in finding him. We did not have his name before then.”

“This agency, like others in our government, is reviewing all data to which it had access, not just what we ourselves may have collected, to determine if more could have been done to stop Abdulmutallab.”

The President said, a warning to authorities from Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s father in Nigeria, should have landed him on a no-fly list well before he boarded the Northwest Airlines flight in Amsterdam.

President Obama also said,

“The warning signs would have triggered red flags and the suspect would have never been allowed to board that plane for America. A systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable.”

Now that our President has had his moment of awakening, what will his administration do to make sure the Department of Homeland Security will do it’s job of making sure the left hand is properly communicating with the right hand so intelligence can come together to properly protect the United States and it’s citizens? Maybe, the government’s lack of time to properly connect the dots, has a direct relation to their focus on investigating individuals in the grass roots uprising of patriots opposing a great number of this administration’s proposed policies.

If a government, who’s Constitutional obligation is to protect it’s citizenry, can’t properly handle this one important duty, what makes people believe the same government can properly provide them with health care? It should be quite obvious they are far too big to properly sort through their own bureaucratic red tape to be efficient at much of anything.

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