made contact with. so it does appear that the alleged christmas day bomber continues to provide information, and this had one of the central criticisms of republicans in the handling of this affair, that the intelligence had been cut off. jon: there is new criticism of the handling of the case, right? reporter: well, there is. about half an hour ago, the ranking republican on the house intelligence committee, pete hoxstar, said to director blair why is it this administration is able to brief at short notice, with senior officials to update them but the status of the abdulmutallab interrogation, when you can t seem the time to brief this committee and congressman hokstra asked specifically what is the administration s policy for targeting americans overseas, and this is a story which has really which is really the leading edge, i believe, in it right now, how is the u.s. government going to deal with radical clerics like anwar al-awlaki, based in yemen, who is with this group that c