Obama advisers consider terror list use
HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama's aides are pondering how the government is using terror watch lists after the botched airliner attack in Detroit on Christmas Day.
Obama's national security and policy advisers are asking questions such as: How is the intelligence community integrating itself? Did the assumptions used to make terror watch list choices lead to the correct decisions? Were the right criteria used to reach conclusions?
Such internal questions among Obama's team marked the informal start to what would likely become a formal executive branch inquiry
