Senate Republicans issued a memo today cataloging apparent contradictions between administration officials’ accounts of the events leading up to the decision to Mirandize Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

The memo suggests that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, in an MSNBC interview Thursday morning, contradicted the sworn Congressional testimony of national-security officials when he suggested that intelligence agencies “came to an agreement” with the Justice Department on the decision to process Abdulmutallab as a civilian criminal.

As I noted yesterday, Gibbs backed off that characterization as the interview progressed, and said only that the FBI “disseminated intelligence” to sister agencies. That was language consistent with Attorney General Eric Holder, who told Senate Republicans only that top national-security officials were “informed” of the decision to Mirandize the Christmas Day bomber.