While President Obama did not create the intelligence system, he has now gotten a bitter lesson in its weaknesses despite the mea culpas and pledges of reform. Full Story »
Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV - via AllTop, New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
The report implicitly acknowledges all of this, saying that the system failed “to identify, correlate, and fuse into a coherent story all of the discrete pieces of intelligence held by the U.S. government” about both the Al Qaeda group and Mr. Abdulmutallab. It also makes clear that this was not a single failure by one agency but was a cascade of failures across agencies and departments and the bureaucracies that are supposed to coordinate them.
One has to wonder what Congress is going to have to say about this huge failure when it returns and the little that Obama did to fix it. Just a few regulations, heads should have rolled those in direct power had their hundred plus days to see that as things were laid out that there would be failures and should have made suggestions to the President to make things better but no they all just sat on their collective hands and said oh well this is fine - fine my ass.