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On the recordJanuary 4, 2010
There is Leon Panetta, the CIA chief. His agency debriefed the bomber's father. The question is, what happened to that intelligence after those briefings?
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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President Obama questions the handling of intelligence by CIA chief Leon Panetta regarding the bomber's father.

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