This administration is taking political advantage with our national security. Desperate for a “win”, they capitalize on an opportunity where from their perspective it’s a “win-win” situation. How?

After the debacle that was the Christmas day terror attack, where our Commander in Chief and his top intelligence officer remained on vacation not to interfere with much needed and valuable “family” time, the administration sends FBI agents to Nigeria to meet with Mr. Abdulmutallab’s family. This kinder, gentler approach produces a talkative terrorist who reveals who he trained with and where, as well as other pertinent information they refuse to divulge under National Security issues. However, administration officials are comfortable enough to discuss openly what type of information they have received to give us insight to what they are doing and why their approach worked so well. Now we have information that the next attack is “certain” within the next three to six months. (Note: no increase in threat level).

The President addresses the American public yesterday trying to explain the failures which have occurred in our intelligence system. He stated no one person can be blamed. This is true; when systemic failures occur, the entire operation fails. Multiple problems existed before this most recent event; some he inherited, some he created.

First, you can’t blame the head of Counter Terrorism for going on vacation during a terrorist attack. He was filing his reports to the President who was on a beach in Hawaii, also on vacation. The country is under terrorist attack and the President is asking for a fax a few times a day about it? Talk about man made disasters and catastrophes!