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Intelligence chief admits blunders

Source PA News

Updated on 21 January 2010

America's intelligence chief made a blunder of his own after he admitted top-level errors over the handling of the Christmas Day plane bomb attempt.

National intelligence director Dennis Blair raised new questions about the ability of the US government to respond at short notice to domestic acts of terror.

But he was later corrected by the head of the FBI over his comments to a Senate panel about the failure to use a special interrogation team - which is not yet operational.

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