American Morning

Connecting the dots after 9/11

(CNN) - The father of terrorism suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab talked about his son's extremist views with someone from the CIA and a report was prepared, but the report was not circulated outside the agency, a reliable source told CNN's Jeanne Meserve on Tuesday.

Why, eight years after the attacks of 9/11, was U.S. intelligence unable to connect the dots? On Wednesday's American Morning we discussed the matter with former Homeland Security Inspector General Clark Kent Irvin and former State Department counter-terrorism official Larry Johnson.

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