Huff Post has an article that says Obama was warned about attacks but the article

[LovinLife]

doesn't say that he was warned. What is Huff Post doing?

Newsweek is misleading as well. What kind of shit is this? It seems that they are trying very hard to blame Obama. More Lefty media bias.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/01/01/exclusive-obama-got-pre-christmas-intelligence-briefing-about-terror-threats-to-homeland.aspx

[Pirate Smile]

1. Huff Post is doing what they always do - try to take down or damage Obama.

That is apparently Arianna's goal.

As usual, with friends like these who needs enemies.

[davidpdx]

4. Arianna=Republican

Yet there are still people on this board who would believe the crap she pettles.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. I think it's more that HuffPo likes hits and often resorts to sensationalism to get them.

[Arkana]

13. I think this is more likely than

Arianna being a Republican again or a closet racist. She's trying to turn HuffPo into the leftwing Drudge Report.

[rebel with a cause]

8. Arianna also = possible racist as far as I am concerned.

I remember her days in California speaking out against the Mexican immigrants when she is an immigrant herself. You can say that she was okay because of the illegal Mexican problem, but that problem didn't come to the forefront for California until the migrant workers decided they wanted to profit from their labor and to stay/belong in the country where they spent most of their time working. As long as those workers knew their place and returned over the border when we didn't need them anymore, Arianna and others were okay with them coming here to do our dirty work.

[polmaven]

18. She puts flowers

on crap?

You know...I'll bet there are even people here who believe the crap she peddles.

[davidpdx]

19. Yeah that's what I meant

[snagglepuss]

2. Your post doesn't make sense.

You've written that article says Obama was warned but then you write "the article doesn't say that he was warned."

So which is it, does the article say he was warned or not warned?

[LovinLife]

3. U really didn't understand me? I meant the newsweek article doesn't say Obama was warned. nt

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. HuffPo has a title "OBAMA WARNED ABOUT ATTACKS" which links to a Newsweek source

whose title is "Obama Got Pre-Christmas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to "Homeland". The actual story is kind of a non story.

"President Barack Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the US, Newsweek has learned. The briefing was centered on a written report, produced by US intelligence agencies, entitled "Key Homeland Threats", a senior US official said.

The senior Administration official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said that nowhere in this document was there any mention of Yemen, whose Al-Qaeda affiliate is now believed to have been behind the unsuccessful Christmas Day attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down a transatlantic airliner with a bomb hidden in his underpants. However, the official declined to disclose any other information about the substance of the briefing, including what kind of specific warnings, if any, the President was given about possibly holiday attacks and whether Yemen came up during oral discussions.

...

Asked about what kind of intelligence reporting was circulated to senior officials about possibly holiday period attacks before the failed underpants attack, a US intelligence official, who also asked for anonymity, explained: "As everybody knows, terrorists often speak in coded language, especially when they think their communications might be intercepted. There was no clear discussion of an attack, on Christmas or any other time, in the Middle East or anywhere else. But as veiled as the message was, it was spotted, processed, analyzed, and presented to senior policymakers as a warning sign-however vague-of a holiday attack. While this was handled properly, there were, to put it mildly, virtually no details at all. That happens." When Newsweek asked a senior Administration official about this characterization of a warning which was passed to White House policymakers, and whether it tracked what was presented at the December 22 Presidential briefing, the official would not comment."

[lamp_shade]

6. This is news?

[depakid]

9. So do you have a link?

Or are you trying to make fools out of some of those who've replied (not that they'd need all that much help).

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. It's on the Front Page of HuffPo.

www.HuffingtonPost.com

The link provided in the OP is the exact link HuffPo's story links to.

[depakid]

17. Still don't see it- and I suspect that it's been misrepresented

In fact, the US government WAS warned- and the agencies DID screw up. No denying that.

Whether higher ups in the administration had any inkling of what was going on in the case or not (or whether they should have) -that's another matter.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

20. Well it's STILL right on the front page. But since that's not good enough, here's a direct link.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/01/obama-was-warned-of-holid_n_409184.html

The title is more inflammatory than the Newsweek headline and the Newsweek story is not really that shocking.

[depakid]

22. Looks like an accurate headline to me

based on the content of the article.

It also looks like others in this thread are being defensive and jumping the gun re: some specific warning about crotch burner that they're inferring for themselves.

[cry baby]

11. many, dare I say, a majority of articles there are anti-Obama lately.

controversy sells, I guess.

I thought those headlines were misleading, too.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. Huff Post is a disreputable tabloid.

[RBInMaine]

14. Huffington is full of shit these days, and her pal Hamsher sleeps with Norquist. Nuff said.

[Pirate Smile]

15. Update:

WEST WING MINDMELD: Did the President have a briefing on December 22 on holiday threats? You bet he did. He demanded it. The holidays are traditionally a time of increased threat reporting and the President wanted to be sure his team was on top of that reporting -- doing the fine work it had done, for example, on the Zazi and Headley cases earlier in the year. In fact, the President demands regular counterterrorism and homeland security briefings that bring together the whole team representing the heads of the government agencies charged with intell and homeland security. Did the December 22 briefing include a warning of an attack? No. It did not. And despite the provocative headline on his story, the Newsweek reporter does not report that there was one. Because he couldn't. Because there wasn't.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0110/Newsweek_Obama_briefed_about_Christmas_terror_threats.html

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[quiller4]

21. The Huff-Po article is taken from the misleading Newsweek story.

[uponit7771]

23. "...the official..."