“I read it that way also. It is meant to absolve him.”
I don’t know. It looks like a negative story to me. The curious part is that it’s coming from Newsweek.
This is Rahm saying that Obama was not served well by his intel folks. Blaming them is not a smart thing to do, and a mark of desperation caused by (undoubtedly) bad polling. It adds more pixels to the growing picture of incompetence and, in the face of Muslim terrorism, delusion.
It is the holiday season. The regulars at Newsweek are on vacation. They will be back to normal on Monday.