U.S. Intelligence Needs Revamp Not a System Shake!

But why the president did not reprimand anyone, or any particular agency responsible for allowing Nigerian extremist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board the Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, armed with explosives and bypassing series of red flags and warning signs?

He acknowledged that there are shortcomings by intelligence agencies, in which the administration failed to unearth the Al Qaeda plot to blow up a US plane on December 25. But, why didn't the president still sanction anyone?

Obviously it wasn't the system that had lapses, clearly it was the people responsible who didn't function the way they are supposed to.

The administration's major lapses started when U.S. intelligence agencies failed to connect the Forthood shooting spree early November of last year, where Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan killed 13 wounded and wounded 30 more others to the Christmas bombing attempt by Abdulmutallab. Actually, just on handling Hasan alone from the very beginning and along the way was already a big mistake. Maj. Hasan was allegedly found to have been exchanging emails with an alleged talent spotter for Al Qaeda. With that we can already say someone wasn't or were not doing their jobs, aren't they responsible? How can the administration shrug their shoulders with all these? It is so disappointing really!

What's even more annoying was when a week after the Christmas bombing attempt, a video surveillance footage was released by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J, showing a security breach that happened at Newark Liberty International Airport.

The video was showing an unidentified man who intentionally eluded the security and was able to because the TSA personnel assigned carelessly left his post, which enabled the man to walked through an exit into a secure area of the airport to hug a woman.

That footage was evident that it wasn't the system, but, the people working on the system who failed.

We need not to spend $1B for high tech scanning gadget to improve our intelligence system. That money can go a long way to millions of Americans who are still unemployed. What we need are security and intelligence personnel, and officials who can commit to this country.

And personally, I don't even agree that the government should talk or publicize any move or changes concerning our intelligence, otherwise we're just jeopardizing all our efforts here and doing our enemies a favor.

Terrorism is not a joke! There are millions of lives and economy at stake! We surely don't want another 9/11 to happen.