Guess who else thought a terrorist attack wasnt worth ending their vacation

[ericire12]

A: The Director of National Counterterrorism Center 


http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/01/he-didnt-let-little-terrorism-interrupt.html

We're all well aware Barack Obama missed the 3 a.m. wake-up call on Christmas after news came out about the failed terrorist attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and his aides didn't wake him for several hours. He of course needed his rest for the next round of golf.

That's bad enough. Now we discover the Director of National Counterterrorism Center decided his ski vacation was too important to interrupt and remained on vacation rather than return to Washington.

We really are in the very best of hands.

   

The top official in charge of analyzing terror threats did not cut short his ski vacation after the underwear bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Christmas Day, the Daily News has learned.

    Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center since 2007, decided not to return to his agency's "bat cave" nerve center in McLean, Va., until several days after Christmas, two U.S. officials said.

    "People have been grumbling that he didn't let a little terrorism interrupt his vacation," said one of the sources.

    The NCTC, the post-9/11 clearinghouse for intelligence to detect terror plots against the U.S., is under intense scrutiny for failing to "connect the dots" on Nigerian bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

    Leiter's spokesman declined to say when the terror-center chief returned to Washington and fully retook the helm of his analysis agency, which is near CIA headquarters just outside the nation's capital.

    "It is our policy to not make our director's schedule available to the public," center spokesman Carl Kropf said in an e-mail.

    Leiter has long been well-regarded, and he was not the only official in the homeland security orbit to skip town for vacation during the holidays. President Obama himself stayed in Hawaii until Jan. 4.

    But Leiter's decision to stay close to the ski slopes instead of his headquarters - ground zero for defending the nation against terror - has raised eyebrows among intelligence officials, who have been scrambling since Dec. 25 to figure out what went wrong and plug the holes.

    Leiter - appointed by President George W. Bush - already ranked high in the buzz over whose heads could eventually end up on Obama's chopping block.

*Fall guy?

[fightingquaker13]

In fairness, I don't think you wake the President up at 3am to inform him, "Nothing happened, there's nothing you can do, we're following protocol". On the other hand, this guy Lieter, might he not want to be there for the nextfew days debriefings, and personally supervise changes to security? Its not like some one got past the gate with a starbucks or nail clippers. If they are going to depend on passengers for flight security (three of the last six in incidents (the Pa. flight, the shoe bomber and this guy), I want my gun.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

 To be accurate, as well as fair, The President SHOULD be woke up to be told that airline security has (again ) failed miserably.
The NCTC however has no jurisdiction, it is not a "police" type reactive agency, it is an intelligence and planning operation.

http://www.nctc.gov/about_us/about_nctc.html

This is just a lame attempt to say SEE Obummer isnt the only a hole , It's this Bush appointee's fault.