Source: CIA failed to circulate report about bombing suspect
What the hell….seriously, just what the hell is law enforcement’s problem? This kind of crap happened before 9/11 and we were given the ridiculously named Homeland Security that was supposed to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to coordinate and cooperate with each other. We are told we have to be patted down and have our bags searched and wiretapped, etc. to keep us safe but the morons who are supposedly responsible for keeping us safe can’t disseminate a damn report from a terrorists own father?
I’m so sick of incompetence from government agencies who then pass the burden on to us because they are incompetent. How ridiculous….wiretap an American citizen’s phone but sit on a report from a person’s father in which the father warns you about his son’s extremist views. Way to go, CIA MORONS.
I have a suggestion as to what our government can do with it’s stupid draconian Patriot Act that gives them the right to spy on us while they ignore reports about true terrorists. It rather makes me wonder if the acts of terrorism that they keep allowing because of incompetence aren’t just a good excuse to tighten the screws on those who they feel have too much freedom for their comfort.
I encountered this kind of crap when I lived in southern Arizona. Day after day illegals crossed through the local golf course and through the wash. All of the citizens who lived in the area knew it, reported it and yet Border Patrol just couldn’t manage to catch them. NOOOOOOOOO, instead of doing something about the illegals they harassed the locals with check points on the interstate, stopping the same people day after day as they tried to go to work or the store. There’s no excuse for the incompetence and dereliction of duty by these agencies on a daily basis.
(CNN) — The father of terrorism suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab talked about his son’s extremist views with someone from the CIA and a report was prepared, but the report was not circulated outside the agency, a reliable source told CNN’s Jeanne Meserve on Tuesday.
Had that information been shared, the 23-year-old Nigerian who is alleged to have bungled an attempt to blow up a jetliner as it was landing in Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day might have been denied passage on the Northwest Airlines flight, the source said.
U.S. officials said the father, a former Nigerian banker, expressed his concerns about his son’s radicalization during at least one meeting and several calls with officials at the embassy in Nigeria.
The information on AbdulMutallab had been sent to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, but it sat there for five weeks and was not disseminated, the source said.





December 30th, 2009 at 6:32 am
Perhpas as Chris Floyd suggests in an article from which I quoted the other day, terrorists are allowed, just as they were allowed on 9/11 just to give us the excuse to bomb the hell and invade and possess whatever country or territory it is that our government is wanting to bomb, invade, and/or possess. Perhaps the question is not as much, “what is it with the stupidity of our security forces?” as it might be, “what the hell game is our country playing?” I think they want us to keep on believing on all the terrorist crap so they can keep the fear element going. Perhaps terrorists are paying our country a dual service. On the one hand they give our government the excuse the government wants to launch any war, invasion, and/or occupation. And on the other hand they also provide our government with license to wiretap us and repress us whenever they want to. Seriously.
Sage Reply:
December 30th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Yes, terrorists have served up an excuse for our government to do lots of things.
December 30th, 2009 at 11:56 am
This is all Bush’s fault because Obama inherited these problems that are the result of the Bush-Cheney torture policies and the corrupt CIA. The CIA is no longer an effective agency and should be put out of it’s misery. Bush and Cheney should be arrested and tried for the terrorism that is now occurring as a result of their policies over the last 8 years.
Sage Reply:
December 30th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I can agree on that.
Can you tell how angry it made me to read this crap about the CIA sitting on that report?
skyagunsta Reply:
December 30th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
@Sage, It is interesting to note that from 1976 to 1977 GHWBush
served as Director of the CIA… it is also interesting to note that He continues to receive the briefings of the CIA (as I read in report when his son was running for the presidency) … and that of the former Presients (or CIA Directors) he is the only one who continues to receive those reports. WAsn’t the CIA also the agency which failed to notify someone about the possibility of a 9/11 attack? As you see, I am a conspiracy theorist, and I firmly believe that the Bushes are entrenched (have their cover hands) in all this terrorist attacks thing.
Sage Reply:
December 30th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I remember when he was CIA director.
December 30th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
When is too much “Intelligence” enough? The CIA is an “Intelligence” agency, the FBI has it’s own “Intelligence” units, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines each have their own “Intelligence” units, Homeland Security has an “Intelligence” unit, the State Department has an “Intelligence” unit, the NSA has an “Intelligence” unit, and the list goes on and on. With all of this “Intelligence”, why are we so freakin’ stupid?
Sage Reply:
December 31st, 2009 at 3:21 am
LOL…now that’s a good question.
December 31st, 2009 at 7:28 am
I’d like to know what the average salary is for a CIA agent…..anyone know? I bet it’s triple or more what most of us make. Yet, we ,as regular civilians, seem to be more capable of doing research and spreading info than them !
Sage Reply:
December 31st, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Here is the government pay scale: http://govcentral.monster.com/government-payscale/articles/7565-2010-government-pay-schedule
Most CIA Agents are probably at least a GS12 and probably also get extra pay for locality and over time.