( CNN ) -- The father of terrorism suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab talked about his son 's extremist views with someone from the CIA and a report was prepared , but the report was not circulated outside the agency , a reliable source told CNN 's Jeanne Meserve on Tuesday . Had that information been shared , the 23-year-old Nigerian who is alleged to have bungled an attempt to blow up a jetliner as it was landing in Detroit , Michigan , on Christmas Day might have been denied passage on the Northwest Airlines flight , the source said . U.S. officials said the father , a former Nigerian banker , expressed his concerns about his son 's radicalization during at least one meeting and several calls with officials at the embassy in Nigeria . The information on AbdulMutallab had been sent to CIA headquarters in Langley , Virginia , but it sat there for five weeks and was not disseminated , the source said . Federal authorities have charged AbdulMutallab with trying to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear as the flight from Amsterdam , Netherlands , made its final approach to Detroit . The device failed to fully detonate , instead setting off a fire at his seat . An administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the federal government had information that should have been assessed and meshed with other information `` that would have allowed us to disrupt the attempted terrorist attack '' before the suspect boarded the jet . `` What we have here is a situation in which the failings were individual , organizational , systemic and technological , '' the official said . `` We ended up in a situation where a single point of failure in the system put our security at risk , where human error was compounded by systemic deficiencies in a way that we can not allow to continue . '' But an intelligence official said that the son 's name , passport number and possible connection to extremists were indeed disseminated . `` I 'm not aware of a magic piece of intelligence somehow withheld that would have put AbdulMutallab on the no-fly list , '' the official said . State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said department staff did what they were supposed to have done by sending a cable to the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington about the matter . Kelly said any decision to have revoked the suspect 's visa would have been an interagency decision . But a U.S. government official said the information in the cable offered nothing specific and was just one of hundreds of such reports that the center evaluates daily . The bureaucratic fingerpointing erupted shortly after President Obama on Tuesday blamed `` a mix of human and systemic failures '' for the incident and directed that preliminary findings into the matter be delivered to the White House by Thursday .
Source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJm6rql4Z8M Report written after AbdulMutallab 's dad spoke to someone with CIA , source says . Source : If CIA had circulated report , AbdulMutallab might have been kept from plane . AbdulMutallab charged with trying to detonate explosives on Christmas flight .