Hey, anybody remember stovepiped intelligence? Jamie Gorelick’s Wall? The 9/11 Commission? Anybody? Anybody at all?

Nah, me neither. It’s for damned sure our “leadership” doesn’t.

(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.

Had that information been shared, the 23-year-old Nigerian who is alleged to have bungled an attempt to blow up a jetliner as it was landing in Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day might have been denied passage on the Northwest Airlines flight, the source said.

The information on AbdulMutallab had been sent to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, but it sat there for five weeks and was not disseminated, the source said.

“What we have here is a situation in which the failings were individual, organizational, systemic and technological,” the official said. “We ended up in a situation where a single point of failure in the system put our security at risk, where human error was compounded by systemic deficiencies in a way that we cannot allow to continue.”

But continue it did, and continue it will; huge federal bureaucracies just don’t learn well, and don’t adapt at all, except when their own survival and that of their cushy desk-surfer and pencil-pusher jobs are directly threatened.

Ahh, but we’re no way no how done here. Via JWF, we have some more dots to connect:

The resilience of al-Qaeda can also be seen in the case of Said Ali al-Shihri, a former GITMO detainee, released in 2007 to Saudi Arabia where, despite having been “rehabilitated,” nonetheless fled upon release to rejoin his fellow jihadis – in a leadership role in Yemen.

There is an additional and intriguing angle involving Yemen, creating a confluence between, that country, Ft. Hood and the Obama administration, in that U.S. AG Holder’s former law firm, Covington & Burling, represented a number of Yemeni detainees who are/were being held in GITMO.

It was meddling by committed lefty attorneys which made military prosecution of the GITMO detainees so difficult. Relentless pressure applied by these advocates is what ultimately led to the Hamden decision [Hamden vs. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557, 2006] in which the military tribunal system established by the Bush administration – relying upon long historical precedent – was overturned on a 5-3 Supreme Court decision, which for the first time in American history applied principles codified in the Geneva Accords to terrorists to which Geneva was long understood not to apply.

We believe that these questions raise grave concerns regarding the desire of the Obama administration to adequately protect American national security.

You might say that, yeah. Some of us have been, for a long time. The only possible solution? Why, turn ‘em all loose, natch:

Less than two weeks ago, the Obama administration repatriated to Yemen six detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. It was a test. About 90 of the 200 or so remaining Gitmo detainees are Yemenis. The president would like to move toward fulfilling his promise to close Gitmo, and thus to appease the antiwar Left, by transferring most of those Yemeni jihadists back home.

On Christmas Day, we got yet another indicator of how reckless this obsession with closing Gitmo is.

The remaining Gitmo detainees are among the worst of the worst: The Obama administration continues to hold them, despite enormous pressure from the president’s political base, because they pose a grave danger to American national security and cannot be relocated to any responsible country. The 600 presumably less dangerous detainees already released from Gitmo have exhibited an alarmingly high incidence of return to the battle, endangering our armed forces as well as civilians such as the passengers on Northwest Flight 253. To spring any of the last 200, at this time, would be irresponsible.

The administration concedes that we are a nation at war; the laws of war permit the detention of enemy captives until the conclusion of hostilities. Guantanamo Bay, which the administration acknowledges to be a first-rate, Geneva Conventions–compliant facility, is the best location we have for holding these jihadists — offshore and under military guard. It is specious to continue portraying Gitmo as a catalyst of terrorism: We have to detain enemy combatants somewhere, and, wherever we do it, the jihadists and their apologists will claim that the detention causes terrorism. Common sense says that a terrorist at large in Yemen is apt to inflict a lot more terror than a terrorist locked up in Gitmo.

Nobody ought to waste a lot of time searching for common sense in DC — or anywhere else where a majority of people think putting a cabal of antiwar, America-hating Left radicals in charge of winning a war might be a good idea.