The New York Daily News is reporting Counterterrorism director at the NCTC, Michael Leiter, continued his vacation on the slops after the Christmas Day crotch Bomber nearly blew up a plane destined for Detroit. One official was reported to have said “People have been grumbling that he didn’t let a little terrorism interrupt his vacation.”
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.
Whether or not cutting his vacation short and running back to his office would have made any difference in the world is up for debate, especially in light of Presdient Obama’s delayed and seemingly nonchalant reaction, it looks, to some critics, like this administration is looking for and just found it’s fall guy to cover for their own ineptness.
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