Dennis Blair, President Barack Obama’s national intelligence director, is resigning after a 16-month tenure marked by intelligence failures and turf wars among the country’s spy agencies.
Word of Blair’s resignation, first reported by ABC News, comes two days after a Senate report criticized his office and other intelligence agencies for new failings that allowed a would-be bomber to board a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day. The Senate Intelligence Committee found that the National Counterterrorism Center was in a position to connect intelligence that could have prevented the potentially deadly attack. As director of national intelligence, Blair oversaw the center.
Blair was the first Obama administration official to describe the deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, last fall as an act of homegrown extremism. The administration had previously been reluctant to call the suspect, an Army psychiatrist, a homegrown terrorist or extremist. Read More at the Source
What else would you call a muslim that killed Americans? I call them Muslim terrorist which is what they are! There seem to be something strange about Obama and his agenda! I will be happy when Obama packs up and moves out of the White House or we get enough new congressmen to investagate who he really is! Tea Party Time!