Setting Impossible Standards On Intelligence -- Washington Post
A Senate analysis of the intelligence community's handling of the would-be Christmas bomber bears a closer reading in the wake of the replacement of Dennis C. Blair as director of national intelligence.
Disclosure that the White House was seeking an alternative to Blair, one day after the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released an unclassified executive summary of its report, appeared to associate the two. Somehow, it was concluded that Blair, whose responsibilities included directly overseeing the National Counterterroism Center (NCTC), should take the blame for the NCTC's failure to prevent the 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, from boarding a Detroit-bound plane in the Netherlands with a bomb in his underpants.
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My Comment: As a person who is always skeptical on what government can (and cannot) do, I do know that our intelligence agencies are fallible and that most terrorist incidents will not be stopped by them. For those who feel supremely confident that government can solve our problems and maintain our security .... they will always be disappointed, and as a result they will always be looking for scapegoats to justify their position on why this (or that) failed, and why individuals (and not) government is to blame.
Of all the members in President Obama's government that should have been fired .... Dennis Blair should have been one of the last. But he does not have the political connections to the President that someone like Attorney General Holder has .... hence this is why he was fired and others were not.
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