The US intelligence community has received a substantial increase in the volume of threat-related intelligence reports.

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Senator Kennedy is right that the intelligence community never characterized the threat as "imminent, " but that's hardly big news unless you think the president did.

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The intelligence community is poring through all threat reporting for any clues, U.S. counterterrorism officials told CNN.

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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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America's intelligence community has routinely judged the ballistic missile threat to be at least 10 to 15 years away--time enough to come up with a defense.

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The United States Intelligence Community (IC) must remain vigilant and focused on this threat.

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Yet the intelligence community "did not increase analytic resources working" on the threat that the group might pose to the West.

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