India's complaints were rejected by Timothy J Roemer, US Ambassador to India, who said Washington had given India "unprecedented" access to Headley. "When India asked the US for access to Headley, we gave it because India is our strategic partner and our friend and somebody with whom we share intelligence on a regular and consistent basis." The United States had passed on warnings of a terrorist strike on Mumbai prior to the November 2008 attacks, but India did not regard the information as sufficiently specific.