Thursday, December 31, 2009

Obama Summons Intelligence Chiefs To White House Meeting



From Reuters:

KANEOHE, Hawaii (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has summoned the heads of U.S. intelligence agencies for a meeting on Tuesday to discuss ways of preventing a repeat of the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25.

Seeking to counter criticism of his administration over an intelligence breakdown, Obama on Thursday said he expected to receive assessments from several intelligence agencies Thursday evening and would review them during the weekend.

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My Comment: The last thing that the Intelligence Chiefs want to find themselves in .... is to be called to the White House to discuss intelligence failures. I expect a number of people to be working non-stop for the next few days to assemble proposals on how to prevent future terror incidents .... but unfortunately this will not solve the problem. The problem resides in how the President wants to combat the war on terror .... a war that the President is skeptical to acknowledge is actually a war to begin with.

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