But NCTC was proposing to copy and keep it for up to five years.
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Now it is clear the NCTC was never told by the State Department that AbdulMutallab had a visa.
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The NCTC never recommended pulling his visa because he was never classified as a terrorist, the officials said.
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Under the new rules, every federal agency must negotiate terms under which it would hand over databases to NCTC.
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On Thursday, the State Department officials indicated the NCTC could have checked AbdulMutallab's visa status when informed of the proper spelling of his name in November.
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The second in command from Homeland Security, the Justice Department, the FBI, NCTC and the office of the director of national intelligence sat at the small conference table.
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It is a sign of how far Mr Blair has fallen from grace that the man who runs the NCTC, Michael Leiter, should be among those mentioned as a successor.
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Let me pause here a moment to say that the Department of Homeland Security works day in and day out with the NCTC and with other members of the intelligence community.
His name, they said, never made it to a no-fly list, nor was he recommended for losing his visa because the NCTC classified him as "P3B, " which stands for a "possible" terrorist.
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Any time an embassy or diplomatic facility is attacked by force with weapons and Americans are killed, that is an act of terror under the definition of terrorism that applies at the NCTC and elsewhere.
However the bigger reason seems to be the failure of the National Counterterrorism Centre (NCTC), the intelligence-fusing body over which Mr Blair has direct oversight, to connect the dots of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner.
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To the men and women in the intelligence community who contributed directly -- notably, from CIA, NSA, NGA, NRO, and NCTC -- and many others from intelligence organizations who contributed indirectly, taken together a magnificent example of teamwork and intelligence integration.
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From 11:00 p.m. on Thursday to 12:00 a.m. on Friday, Brennan held a phone call to discuss the threat with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Director Robert Mueller, NCTC Director Mike Leiter, TSA Administration John Pistole, and officials from the Central Intelligence Agency.
Ellis points out that while the NCTC numbers are up by 200 percent from its numbers of 2004, another database run by the Rand Institute shows an 86 percent jump in attacks from 2004 to 2005, and it hasn't changed the way it defines terrorism, although it uses more restrictive terms than the NCTC.
At 1:00 a.m. on Friday, Brennan and Senior Director Nicholas Rasmussen of the national security staff held a secure video teleconference to discuss the threat with officials from across the intelligence community, including NSA, CIA, TSA, NCTC and FBI, as well as the FAA, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, Northern Command, the Coast Guard and other White House officials.
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