On Actionable Intelligence

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said today that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab provided “usable, actionable” intelligence upon his capture on Christmas Day.

If Gibbs is telling the truth, why did the president, three days after the attack, call it the work of an “isolated extremist?” Did Abdulmutallab provide “usable, actionable” intelligence about himself? If not, why didn’t President Obama know about this intelligence and why didn’t he understand that the Christmas bombing was not the work of an “isolated extremist?”