How ironic. Remember when the left crucified George W. Bush because his administration was warned of unspecific threats to the homeland from aircraft before 9/11? And, lacking telepathic abilities, he wasn’t able to prevent the attacks? Yeah….

Turns out that Barack Obama was told just days before Christmas that there was a significant threat of a holiday-era attacks on the United States. To be clear, that’s days before a faulty detonator became the only thing stopping an al-Qaeda operative from murdering 290 people over Detroit.

President Barack Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the US, Newsweek has learned. The briefing was centered on a written report, produced by US intelligence agencies, entitled “Key Homeland Threats”, a senior US official said.

The senior Administration official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said that nowhere in this document was there any mention of Yemen, whose Al-Qaeda affiliate is now believed to have been behind the unsuccessful Christmas Day attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down a transatlantic airliner with a bomb hidden in his underpants. However, the official declined to disclose any other information about the substance of the briefing, including what kind of specific warnings, if any, the President was given about possibly holiday attacks and whether Yemen came up during oral discussions.

No specific warning about Yemen in the report, but then again there was no specific warning about al-Qaeda operatives in the United States using commercial aircraft to take out the World Trade Center, either. That didn’t stop the left from gutting Bush.

Of course, I don’t intend to criticize Obama for this report alone. He couldn’t have been expected to stop the attack based solely on a threat report with no specifics.

Instead, this report should’ve been used in conjunction with the other information available to the U.S. government at the time. Like Abdulmuttalab’s father warning American authorities about his son. Or our knowledge of his past terror-related activities. Or any of the other warning signs that should’ve raised red flags.

Maybe next time we can enact such intense security measures as making sure those boarding U.S.-bound planes actually have passports and visas. And those with entry visas don’t have a history of terror-related activities.