Posted on 12/31/2009 4:06:29 PM PST by Schnucki
Heads are set to roll in the U.S. intelligence community as an angry Barack Obama fends off criticism over the attempted bombing of a passenger plane on Christmas Day.
Publicly the White House is standing by the top spymaster in the U.S., intelligence chief Admiral Dennis Blair.
The four-star admiral, who is responsible for coordinating intelligence gathering between 16 agencies, has the full confidence of the president, aides are insisting.
But speculation was rife that Blair or Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano could be forced to resign after Mr Obama said on Tuesday there had been a systemic failure by the country's security agencies to prevent the botched Christmas Day attack.
Napolitano has been lambasted by Republican critics, and in the media, for initially saying the air security system worked. She quickly back-pedalled, claiming she had meant the system of beefing up measures worked after the incident had occurred.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Napolitano had the president's support, and Obama referred to her in his public comments on Tuesday, supporting her statement that correct actions were taken after the attempted attack.
But Kurt Volker, a former CIA analyst and until recently U.S. ambassador to Nato, said Blair and Napolitano were facing the traditional Washington blame game.
'That's politics. It's the way politics goes, that you look for whom you can blame so you can say, 'if my party had been elected instead of yours, things would have been better,'' said Volker, now at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.
A senior aide said Obama would seek accountability at the highest levels for the failure, a remark some observers took to mean that heads would roll.
Obama, a Democrat, is under pressure from Republicans, who fault his administration for not preventing the attack and the
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I thought it was Bush’s fault??
Clearly a 17th agency is required. Unionized. Yeah, that'll fix it.
Heads rolling? Is he back from vacation?
Well Bush has got to go!
“White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Napolitano had the president’s support...”
Nah nah nah nah,
Nah nah nah nah,
Heyyyyyyyy, heyyyyyyyy, heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy,
Goooood bye.
Of course the Kenyan is angry.
How dare everyone of us for interrupting his golf game, surfing, hoops, gym time, weight time, hiking, pool time, sand castle time...
Diverting attention from the fact that the deadline he gave to Iran has been ignored.
Let’s talk about this failure over here rather than the other failure over there.
From what we have seen so far, O has been nothing but a failure.
Too many idiot cooks in the kitchen.
I predict the 2 worthless bulldykes both keep their jobs.
LMAO!
You first, Obama!!
How about his first?
This will be bass-ackwards - just like everything else Obama from Bizarro World does.
- Punishment for the innocent.
- Rewards and accolades for the guilty and incompetent,
If he keeps Napolitano and hires the guy who’s been doing the job all along and promotes him (his present “work” may well be summarized in the security failure of Christmas Day), he’ll be going after the CIA once again and failing to access the true cause of the security lapse. Americans are not stupid and we know when “heads will roll” actually means whether meaningful changes will be made or cosmetic replacements publicized to quiet down security effectivity concerns.
Rahm Emanuel will NOT let any crisis go un-used....
Hey Obama, they’re responsible for implementing your policies. Soooo....maybe you should fire yourself rather than try to blame other people for doing what you told them to do?
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