AP - Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day suggest a fervently religious and lonely young man who fantasized about becoming a Muslim holy warrior.
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Politico - POTUS receives the criticism that Bush did not eight years ago with the “shoe bomber” incident.
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AP - Two federal agencies charged with keeping potential terrorists off airplanes and out of the country have been without their top leaders for nearly a year.
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AP - The Obama administration claim that “the system worked” after a failed aircraft bombing wasn’t quite as jolting as President George W. Bush’s “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job” while New Orleans sank under deadly Hurricane Katrina. But both raised disturbing questions about presidential response in a time of crisis.
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AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the intelligence community had bits of information that should have been pieced together that would have triggered “red flags” and possibly prevented the Christmas Day attempted terror attack on a Detroit-bound airliner.
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AP - The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says the government needs to do a better job of telling Americans about the threat from terrorism.
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AP - An Iowa Republican congressman says he thinks former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2012 and that she’s among a few people who could win the state’s leadoff caucuses.
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CQPolitics.com - Retirement Reduces Ranks of ‘94 GOP Freshmen
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AP - California Republican George Radanovich said Tuesday that he will not seek re-election to Congress next year but will serve out his eighth term representing a GOP-leaning district.
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AP - The Obama administration on Sunday strongly condemned the Iranian government’s crackdown on protesters, offering its support to civilians “seeking to exercise their universal rights.”
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