Obama: US Agencies had Intelligence to Foil Airline Bomb Plot


by Bill Van Auken
WSWS.org
January 6, 2010


In a brief public statement delivered after a White House meeting Tuesday with US intelligence chiefs, President Barack Obama acknowledged that the CIA and other agencies had all the information needed to detect the Christmas Day airline bombing plot, but failed to stop it.

“This was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had,â€