CIA Official: Obama was Briefed on Egypt Instability Late Last Year

By Susan Crabtree

The U.S. intelligence community warned President Obama about instability in Egypt late last year, according to a CIA official.
Stephanie O'Sullivan, the President's nominee for principal deputy director of national intelligence who currently serves as associate deputy director of the CIA, told the Senate intelligence committee Thursday that the agency briefed Obama. She did not indicate how specific the information they provided was.
"We warned of instability but not exactly where it would come from [and in what form]," she said. "That happened at the end of last year."
The committee was considering O'Sullivan's nomination, and O'Sullivan was responding to a question from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) about what the president knew about the expected unrest in Egypt and when he knew it.

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