Ever since Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, told a congressional panel two weeks ago that he was cut out of the loop on reading would-be Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights, it’s been a circus. Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) plan More…
The Dennis Blair Show continues:
Former Gov. Thomas H. Kean, New Jersey Republican, and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, Indiana Democrat, said U.S. intelligence agencies should have been consulted before the bombing suspect, Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was granted constitutional protections under U.S. law, known as Miranda rights,
What were the wages of Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s botched Senate testimony Wednesday about being cut out of the loop on the interrogation of would-be Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab? Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Robert Bennett (R-Utah) More…
Mark Hosenball reports that no one checks the visas of U.S.-bound air travelers until they’re in the air. On the one hand, checking visas alone won’t necessarily keep a dangerous person out of the country. There wasn’t a single problem with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s visa before he boarded Northwest More…
Following on Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s star-crossed testimony in the Senate yesterday about Northwest Airlines Flight 253 — which the GOP leadership is using as a political cudgel against the Obama administration — the Senate intelligence committee heard from Blair and his intelligence colleagues in a More…
Apropos of my piece on Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s awkward testimony yesterday, Michael Isikoff fleshes out the dissatisfaction felt toward Blair at the White House:
“People are annoyed, angry, and frustrated about this,” said the senior official, who asked not to be identified, speaking about Blair’s
Hours after Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, told a Senate panel that he thought the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) should have interrogated would-be Northwest 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab — which suggested that the FBI didn’t get valuable intelligence out of the suspect — the intelligence More…
Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, may think the interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went haywire when the would-be bomber was Mirandized instead of being subject to the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. But FBI Director Robert Mueller had a different take about the value of intelligence collected within the More…
It’s quite a spectacle to watch members of Congress — all of whom have sworn an oath to support the U.S. Constitution — brag about their disdain for the right to due process, which is guaranteed by the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment (even for foreign nationals suspected of crimes in the More…
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wants to know more about the watchlisting standards that Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said were crucial to the failure to prevent Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding Northwest Flight 253.
It “really does come down to what the analytic judgment was at More…
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