Senior admin officials have found out it is virtually impossible to get a decision from POTUS.
SEC State, SEC DEF, Intel agencies, and Congressional leadership know this.
POTUS has been out of the loop for so long that Clinton and Panetta have made unilateral decisions that should have been reserved for POTUS.
I don't believe BO has formally delegated this decision authority for Constitutional reasons or sheer incompetence. Now that one of these decisions has gone bad, POTUS will eventually blame them by simply saying he was uninformed.
The entire administration is collapsing before our very eyes. This is a potentially a very dangerous situation.
What about Brennan and Donilon?
“Senior admin officials have found out it is virtually impossible to get a decision from POTUS.”...
I believe you are right on this. Happens at a lot of companies that fail... poor leadership at the top.