This was interrogation information, not sigint, and the story says FBI, not an intelligence organization (not NSA).

These were probably a bunch of domestic FBI guys who probably figured that an attack in Indonesia meant an attack on Indonesians or other asians, and weren't thinking of something like Acapulco with American tourists.
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