U.S Intelligence a real oxymorn w/ this Nigerian

[Mike]

Officials said he came to the attention of U.S. intelligence last month when his father, Alhaji Umar Mutallab, a prominent Nigerian banker, reported to the American Embassy in Nigeria about his son's increasingly extremist religious views.


It sounds like the father of the Nigerian that attempted to bomb the Detroit plane did all he could to alert local and US authorities. The list of possible terrorists(TIDE) has 550,000 names on it at various levels, so I can get past that, I bet a lot of those 550,000 get on planes.
It sounds like the US Embassy in Nigeria communicated the info to whomever was their contact. Some path of communication broke down disgustingly.They had a month to process this info from the guy's own concerned father?