EXCLUSIVE: Obama Got Pre-Christmas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to “Homeland”

Wow, that sounds like a fuckup! tell us MOAR!

President Barack Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the US, Newsweek has learned. The briefing was centered on a written report, produced by US intelligence agencies, entitled “Key Homeland Threats”, a senior US official said.

OMG! ZOBAMA WEAK ON TERRER! Please, newsweek, TELL US!

What’s that? Read the second paragraph, and ignore the headline and first scary paragraph? Why would we want to do that?

Asked about what kind of intelligence reporting was circulated to senior officials about possibly holiday period attacks before the failed underpants attack, a US intelligence official, who also asked for anonymity, explained: “As everybody knows, terrorists often speak in coded language, especially when they think their communications might be intercepted. There was no clear discussion of an attack, on Christmas or any other time, in the Middle East or anywhere else. But as veiled as the message was, it was spotted, processed, analyzed, and presented to senior policymakers as a warning sign-however vague-of a holiday attack. While this was handled properly, there were, to put it mildly, virtually no details at all. That happens.” When Newsweek asked a senior Administration official about this characterization of a warning which was passed to White House policymakers, and whether it tracked what was presented at the December 22 Presidential briefing, the official would not comment.

WOW! So did Obama receive a briefing one month before the attack entitled “Random Nigerian With Exploding Underpants Determined To Attack Within the US”? He must have, right? What else could explain your headline and breathless fearmongering first paragrapgh?

Oh hey, what’s this in your final paragraph, newsweek?

Presidential aides are concerned that Obama will somehow be unfairly accused of dropping the ball on the fight against terrorist in Yemen — a country where, in fact, the evidence suggests Obama, as early as last summer, ordered a significant increase in US intelligence activity.

Yes, ‘somehow’ Obama ‘might’ be unfairly accused of dropping the ball. Who would do such a thing, newsweek? Who? Who?
Surely not someone such as yourselves.

BTW, this will clearly be the wingnut ball to pick up and run with today. Just sayin.