Is The U.S. Breakdown Of Sharing Intelligence Worse Than What Is Being Reported?

John Brennan and President Obama in the Oval office. The North Bergen native had a long CIA career and has served many presidents. WHITE HOUSE PHOTO

White House Adviser Briefed in October on Underwear Bomb Technique -- Newsweek

White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan was briefed in October on an assassination attempt by Al Qaeda that investigators now believe used the same underwear bombing technique as the Nigerian suspect who tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, U.S. intelligence and administration officials tell NEWSWEEK.

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My Comment: The key phrase in this report is the following ....

The briefing for Brennan is among a series of pre-Christmas warnings suggesting that the breakdown in the U.S. intelligence system prior to the Northwest attack may have been worse than has been publicly acknowledged, according to an article in the new issue of NEWSWEEK, “The Radicalization of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.” The full story can be read here.

Bottom line .... the Saudis informed the U.S. in October on how terrorists were trying new methods to conceal explosives .... but Brennan and others did not connect the dots.

This news leak should not be unexpected. Heads are going to roll because of what has happened .... what we are now witnessing are people positioning others to get the blame and the fall. Even our politicians are worried with what is happening, as partisan politics is now taking over national security considerations.