As soon as Obama came out for that second press conference, you knew that there were going to be some new revelations. Now the avalanche begins — and so do the questions…
“It now appears that weeks ago this information was passed to a component of our intelligence community but was not effectively distributed so as to get the suspect’s name on a no-fly list,” Obama said today. Could the “component of our intelligence community” include, say, the National Counterterrorism Center? The president “intends to demand accountability at the highest levels.” Who is to take the blame for this if not Dennis Blair? As a CIA official told Mike Allen, “The United States government set up NCTC — and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — to connect the dots on terrorism. If somebody thinks it could have been done better in this case, they know where to go for answers.”
