A US official denied it that the United States did not share any terrorist-attack related information with Indian authorities.
ProPublica said officials declined to provide further specifics but the review is certain to examine the response of federal agencies to the warnings and the extent to which the enigmatic Headley’s work as a US informant overlapped with his activity as a militant of the Lashkar-i-Taiba terrorist group.
"These events happened some time ago and given recent press reports he initiated an action after review to look into whether any further improvements on the information sharing system need to be made," a federal official was quoted as saying by ProPublica."
In the contacts that we had with his spouses, there was not specific information as to who he was associated with or what they were planning to do," State Department spokesman P J Crowley told reporters early this week.
Crowley said his response was based in the context of two meetings that the State Department officials had with one of Headley’s spouses in late 2007 and early 2008.
"She did provide us some information. We followed up on that information and provided it to relevant agencies across the US government," he said.
Responding to reporters’ questions, Crowley insisted that the US authorities followed up with the information provided by Headley’s wives.
"Did we follow up? The answer is yes. Have -- did we share information with our security partners, including India, you know, prior to the Mumbai attacks? The answer is yes," he insisted.
“Needless to say, I will just say that going back over some of the information they provided to us, there was concern expressed by both spouses; at the same time, the information was not specific. I think everyone should understand that, if we did have specific information on this, we would have absolutely provided it to the Indian government... The fact is that while we had information and concerns, it did not detail a time or a place of the attack," Crowley had said.
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