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# The Global Intelligence Files

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

## RE: Text of Obama's speech

Released on 2012-08-21 01:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1089652
Date | 2010-01-06 02:15:20
From | burton@stratfor.com
To | analysts@stratfor.com
List-Name | analysts@stratfor.com

This is not a fixable problem.
DHS is dysfunctional and broke. FBI doesn't share information w/DHS.
CIA has one foot in the grave. DIA is conspiring w/the FBI to bury the
CIA.
Foggy Bottom has always been broke.
Meanwhile, NYPD is infiltrating aQ.
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From: analysts-bounces@stratfor.com [mailto:analysts-bounces@stratfor.com]
On Behalf Of Chris Stevenson
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 7:00 PM
To: Analyst List
Subject: Text of Obama's speech
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/01/05/urgency-getting-right
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I just concluded a meeting
with members of my national security team, including those from our
intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement agencies involved in
the security reviews that I ordered after the failed attack on Christmas
Day.
I called these leaders to the White House because we face a challenge
of the utmost urgency. As we saw on Christmas, al Qaeda and its extremist
allies will stop at nothing in their efforts to kill Americans. And we
are determined not only to thwart those plans, but to disrupt, dismantle
and defeat their networks once and for all.
Indeed, over the past year, we've taken the fight to al Qaeda and its
allies wherever they plot and train, be it in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in
Yemen and Somalia, or in other countries around the world.
Here at home, our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement
agencies have worked together with considerable success: gathering
intelligence, stitching it together, and making arrests -- from Denver to
Texas, from Illinois to New York -- disrupting plots and saving American
lives. And these successes have not come without a price, as we saw last
week in the loss of our courageous CIA officers in Afghanistan.
But when a suspected terrorist is able to board a plane with
explosives on Christmas Day the system has failed in a potentially
disastrous way. And it's my responsibility to find out why, and to
correct that failure so that we can prevent such attacks in the future.
And that's why, shortly after the attempted bombing over Detroit, I
ordered two reviews. I directed Secretary of Homeland Security Janet
Napolitano to review aviation screening, technology and procedures. She
briefed me on her initial findings today, and I'm pleased that this review
is drawing on the best science and technology, including the expertise of
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and his department.
I also directed my counterterrorism and homeland security advisor
John Brennan to lead a thorough review into our terrorist watch-listing
system so we can fix what went wrong. As we discussed today, this ongoing
review continues to reveal more about the human and systemic failures that
almost cost nearly 300 lives. We will make a summary of this preliminary
report public within the next few days, but let me share some of what we
know so far.
As I described over the weekend, elements of our intelligence
community knew that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had traveled to Yemen and
joined up with extremists there. It now turns out that our intelligence
community knew of other red flags -- that al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula sought to strike not only American targets in Yemen, but the
United States itself. And we had information that this group was working
with an individual who was known -- who we now know was in fact the
individual involved in the Christmas attack.
The bottom line is this: The U.S. government had sufficient
information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the
Christmas Day attack. But our intelligence community failed to connect
those dots, which would have placed the suspect on the "no fly" list.
In other words, this was not a failure to collect intelligence; it was a
failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had.
The information was there. Agencies and analysts who needed it had access
to it. And our professionals were trained to look for it and to bring it
all together.
Now, I will accept that intelligence, by its nature, is imperfect,
but it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or
fully leveraged. That's not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it. Time
and again, we've learned that quickly piecing together information and
taking swift action is critical to staying one step ahead of a nimble
adversary.
So we have to do better -- and we will do better. And we have to do
it quickly. American lives are on the line. So I made it clear today to
my team: I want our initial reviews completed this week. I want specific
recommendations for corrective actions to fix what went wrong. I want
those reforms implemented immediately, so that this doesn't happen again
and so we can prevent future attacks. And I know that every member of my
team that I met with today understands the urgency of getting this right.
And I appreciate that each of them took responsibility for the shortfalls
within their own agencies.
Immediately after the attack, I ordered concrete steps to protect the
American people: new screening and security for all flights, domestic and
international; more explosive detection teams at airports; more air
marshals on flights; and deepening cooperation with international
partners.
In recent days, we've taken additional steps to improve security.
Counterterrorism officials have reviewed and updated our terrorist watch
list system, including adding more individuals to the "no fly" list. And
while our review has found that our watch-listing system is not broken,
the failure to add Abdulmutallab to the "no fly" list shows that this
system needs to be strengthened.
The State Department is now requiring embassies and consulates to
include current visa information in their warning on individuals with
terrorist or suspected terrorist connections. As of yesterday, the
Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, is requiring enhanced
screening for passengers flying into the United States from, or flying
through, nations on our list of state sponsors of terrorism, or other
countries of interest. And in the days ahead, I will announce further
steps to disrupt attacks, including better integration of information and
enhanced passenger screening for air travel.
Finally, some have suggested that the events on Christmas Day should
cause us to revisit the decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
So let me be clear. It was always our intent to transfer detainees to
other countries only under conditions that provide assurances that our
security is being protected.
With respect to Yemen in particular, there's an ongoing security
situation which we have been confronting for some time, along with our
Yemeni partner. Given the unsettled situation, I've spoken to the
Attorney General and we've agreed that we will not be transferring
additional detainees back to Yemen at this time.
But make no mistake: We will close Guantanamo prison, which has
damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting
tool for al Qaeda. In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the
formation of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. And, as I've always said,
we will do so -- we will close the prison in a manner that keeps the
American people safe and secure.
Our reviews -- and the steps that we've taken and will continue to take --
go to the heart of the kind of intelligence and homeland security we need
in the 21st century. Just as al Qaeda and its allies are constantly
evolving and adapting their efforts to strike us, we have to constantly
adapt and evolve to defeat them, because as we saw on Christmas, the
margin for error is slim and the consequences of failure can be
catastrophic.
As these violent extremists pursue new havens, we intend to target al
Qaeda wherever they take root, forging new partnerships to deny them
sanctuary, as we are doing currently with the government in Yemen. As our
adversaries seek new recruits, we'll constantly review and rapidly update
our intelligence and our institutions. As they refine our tactics, we'll
enhance our defenses, including smarter screening and security at
airports, and investing in the technologies that might have detected the
kind of explosives used on Christmas.
In short, we need our intelligence, homeland security and law
enforcement systems -- and the people in them -- to be accountable and to
work as intended: collecting, sharing, integrating, analyzing, and acting
on intelligence as quickly and effectively as possible to save innocent
lives -- not just most of the time, but all the time. That's what the
American people deserve. As President, that's exactly what I will
demand.
Thank you very much.
--
Chris Stevenson
ADP-CT
Stratfor
chris.stevenson@stratfor.com
512-744-4077