On January 8 , 2010 , Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair announced that he had appointed McLaughlin to head a group of experts to investigate the December 2009 bombing attempt by alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 , and the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting , carried out by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan . The group was tasked with making proposals to remedy weaknesses in intelligence systems and procedures that the incidents exposed
Northwest Airlines Flight 253
Northwest Airlines Flight 253
John E. McLaughlin