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Why did Obama's Terror Chief stay on Ski slopes after attack?

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON - 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. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/07/2010-01-07_antiterror_chief_took_ski_pass_remained_on_slopes_after_christmas_bomb_attempt.html#ixzz0bwv0YdOX

Public Comments

1. Past precedent. See Hurricane Katrina.
2. Because he, as with the rest of this "administration" is nothing more than an incompetent, self indulged, corrupt buffoon.
3. because it was not a terror attack silly you...it was a man made disaster
4. It was not an attack - it was an attempted attack! And the mistakes were made in Holland - there's not much he could have done about it either way.
5. He, just like every other person in a leadership role, has a staff that should be able to handle something like this without ruining his vacation. For him to cancel his vacation and run back to work would have been a sign that his whole staff needed to be fired for incompetency.
6. maybe he was encouraged to continue his vacation by whoever wished for Obama to continue his own vacation, now he can take the fall because he was hired (for that position) during the previous administration