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Obama Points to Failures in Intelligence System

Washington (Jan. 7) -- President Obama said Thursday that America's first line of defense is "timely, accurate" intelligence that is properly integrated. "That's not what happened" before the attempted December 25 airplane bombing, he said. Obama pointed out three failures in the nation's intelligence system that allowed...

Obama Ties al Qaeda to Christmas Day Terror Plot

(Jan. 1) - President Obama today urged an end to political sniping over the handling of efforts to prevent terrorist attacks, saying that Americans should not succumb to "partisanship and division" in the face of the enemy such as the al Qaeda group in Yemen that plotted the bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.

Nigerian Had Contact With Radical Cleric, Official Says

WASHINGTON (Dec. 31) -- Terror suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab appears to have had direct contacts with radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. counterterrorism official told CNN Thursday. The official could not say more about the contacts, their frequency or timing. Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra of...