Abdulmutallab

We are in the accusation and ass covering phase of the Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab vis a vis Yemen terrorist attack on Christmas.

One would suspect that little information will come out surrounding who was in the middle of the decision to let this guy slip through. One might suspect that several red flags were in place.

Also we are now reading that the plan to close Gitmo may be a casualty of this unfortunate episode. One would also suspect that this is more of a political cautionary decision.

McClatchy: Likely casualty of air plot: Obama's Guantanamo plans

Cascading reports that the alleged would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had trained in Yemen, and that the plot was hatched by two former Guantanamo detainees, have even supporters of emptying the prison predicting a new impediment to their effort.

Nearly half of the 198 captives at Guantánamo are citizens of Yemen -- also the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden -- just south of Saudi Arabia.

McClatchy: Obama: 'Intelligence community' blew air bomber tip

Obama said..."It now appears that weeks ago this information was passed to a component of our intelligence community but was not effectively distributed so as to get the suspect's name on a no-fly list."

"When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred," he (Obama) said. "And I consider that totally unacceptable."