Nope. There was no smoking gun.
Except for the lack of passport, the calls from dad saying baby boy is a 72 goat-humping terrorist, the UK banning him from returning there…
No. Smoking. Gun. At. All.
The White House said today there had been no “smoking gun” which
should have alerted US intelligence agencies to the threat posed by
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be suicide bomber who tried to
bring down a jet over Detroit on Christmas Day.The claim by John
Brennan, Barack Obama’s top adviser on counterterrorism, came as the
administration went into damage limitation mode in an attempt to
deflect on-going Republican criticism over its record on combating al-Qaida.Brennan
said there had been “no single piece of intelligence — no smoking gun
if you will — that said Mr Abdulmutallab was going to carry out this
attack”.Instead, there had been “little snippets” of information gathered from intelligence sources.
Don’t you feel safer now?
