The antiterror education of President Obama continued yesterday, with his release of a White House report blaming the “counterterrorism community” as a whole for “a failure to connect the dots of intelligence” that would have prevented Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding a plane to Detroit on Christmas Day. Mr. Obama blamed no one in particular [...]
‘A Failure to Connect the Dots’ – WSJ.com
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The Terrorists’ Best Weapon: Intelligence Failures – by Ryan Mauro
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