The Situation Room

President Obama meets this afternoon with a variety of homeland security officials at the White House on the botched plane bombing attempt on Christmas Day, as the Obama Administration scrambles to deal with the political and intelligence fallout from that Al Qaeda plot.

The Situation Room will be pretty full for this meeting, as top intelligence officials and Cabinet agency heads will be involved.  Here is the list of expected attendees as provided by the White House last night:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
Attorney General Eric Holder
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence
Leon Panetta, Director of the CIA
Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI
LTG Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency
Michael Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center
General James Jones, National Security Advisor
Tom Donilon, Deputy National Security Advisor
John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President
Denis McDonough, NSS Chief of Staff
Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications
Nick Rasmussen, Senior Director for Counterterrorism, NSS
Heidi Avery, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, NSS
Bob Bauer, White House Counsel
Mary DeRosa, Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs

Meanwhile in the Congress, we have several hearings now set for later this month in the Senate Judiciary Committee on the issue of information sharing amongst the various intelligence agencies in the U.S. Government.

Two hearings have now been set in the Senate on the afternoon of January 20, the day the Senate returns to work.  The Judiciary Committee will have a hearing on questions about intelligence sharing, while the Commerce Committee will also look at the botched plane attack.

Because the House returns to work a week earlier in the Senate, they will get first crack at the matter, as the House Intelligence Committee has set a January 13 briefing.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has a hearing set for January 21 on how the accused bomber was allowed to get on the plane and what US intelligence knew about the plot.