Wednesday, January 20, 2010

One darn thing after another...building a legacy of failure?

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that he was not consulted on whether Abdulmutallab should be questioned by the recently created High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG.
 
"That unit was created exactly for this purpose," Blair said. "We did not invoke the HIG in this case. We should have."
 
Under questioning by Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, Blair and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said they were not consulted before the decision was made to not use the high-value detainee interrogation group. Also, Michael Leiter, chief of the National Counter Terrorism Center, said he was not consulted.
 
"That is very troubling," Collins said.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was interviewed by federal law enforcement investigators when Northwest Flight 253 landed in Detroit after he allegedly tried to detonate a homemade bomb sneaked through airport security in Nigeria and Amsterdam. Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, is being held in a prison near Detroit.

Very troubling indeed

Agencies don’t talk to each other, there is no procedure or protocol in place that should be well known to everyone in the intelligence, and law enforcement communities…I mean a bomber on a plane that was trying to blow away 278 people probably should have been questioned by intelligence gatherers, rather than crime solvers…or did I miss something here?

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3 comments:

  1. Kimberly WilsonJanuary 21, 2010 at 3:06 AM

    You should read what some of the passengers are saying about the incident. I don't put it pass these people to keep shit happening to keep the fear going, and to justify all the things they are doing to people's freedoms.

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  2. DJ DJanuary 21, 2010 at 5:06 AM

    One does wonder...

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  3. Michael ~January 21, 2010 at 8:10 AM

    This was a purposeful decision taken by Barack Obama and Eric Holder.

    They have chosen to treat terrorists like citizens and citizens like terrorists. They have chosen to gut the interrogation capabilities of our intelligence services before an attack in favor of securing convictions after an attack.

    Why should our top counter-terrorism officials be consulted? They don’t have any say in the answer.

    That decision has already been made.

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