TERRORISM : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: John Brennan Rails on Dick Cheney, Explains 'Systemic Failure'
David P. Dillard
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TERRORISM :
UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT:
John Brennan Rails on Dick Cheney, Explains 'Systemic Failure'
John Brennan Rails on Dick Cheney, Explains 'Systemic Failure'
John Brennan, Obama's top counterterrism aide, offered a strong rebuke of
Dick Cheney's criticism and suggested that post-9/11
intelligence-gathering networks still can't bring all the relevant
information together.
By Mark Sappenfield Staff Writer /
January 3, 2010
The Christian Science Monitor
<http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0103/
John-Brennan-rails-on-Dick-Cheney-explains-systemic-failure>
A shorter URL for the above link:
John Brennan, President Obama's top terrorism adviser, rallied to the
defense of the administration Sunday, taking on critic-in-chief Dick
Cheney and explaining the deep-seated "systemic failure" that Obama
mentioned in comments last week.
<snip>
On NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, Mr. Brennan said the former vice
president was either lying or ignorant. "Either the vice president is
willfully mischaracterizing this president's position - both in terms of
language he uses, and the actions he's taken - or he's ignorant of the
fact."
Brennan, who noted that he has worked for presidents of both parties, said
he was "disappointed" by the partisan reaction to the Christmas bombing
attempt.
System can't sift the relevant clues
In other ways, however, Sunday marked a dialing back of the partisan
rhetoric. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R) of Michigan, the ranking member of the
House intelligence committee and one of the fiercest administration
critics in recent days, acknowledged that no terrorist tracking system is
perfect.
"It's a reality [that] it's very, very difficult to stop every single
attack," he said on ABC's "This Week." "It doesn't mean that we should
stop trying to improve the mechanisms that we put in place."
<snip>
Speaking on "This Week," Brennan acknowledged the US intelligence agencies
had "a number of streams of information" about Mr. Abdulmutallab,
including a warning from his father and "little snippets" from Al Qaeda
intercepts that mentioned parts of his name and a Nigerian asset. But
there was no smoking gun, he added.
The incident showed that the reforms taken after 9/11 have not yet created
a system that is "able to put all that information together," he said.
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