{"id":729562,"date":"2010-05-19T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85201"},"modified":"2010-05-19T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:40:00","slug":"post%e2%80%99s-stein-thinks-national-counterterrorism-center-director-should-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/729562","title":{"rendered":"Post\u2019s Stein Thinks National Counterterrorism Center Director Should Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get a substantive response from the National Counterterrorism Center or its director, Michael Leiter, to <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/85084\/senate-intel-committee-blasts-national-counterterrorism-center-on-abdulmutallab\">yesterday&#8217;s Senate report singling it out for failure in the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab case<\/a>. Instead, I got pointed to <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/85090\/intel-chief-issues-tepid-reaction-to-senates-abdulmutallab-report\">Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair&#8217;s Wheatena-flavored reply<\/a>. That might reflect the comfort Leiter has felt since the chairwoman of the committee that authored the report, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and the White House counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/73475\/feinstein-brennan-back-nctc-chief\">embraced Leiter back in January<\/a>, when the near-miss attack was at its most politically potent.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Stein of The Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/spy-talk\/2010\/05\/us_intelligence_sombody_needs.html\">wants to dislodge Leiter from that comfort<\/a> &#8212; and, for that matter, his job.<span id=\"more-85201\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If U.S. intelligence hasn&#8217;t completely eluded accountability &#8212; and there&#8217;s widespread doubt about that &#8212; then somebody&#8217;s got to take the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Why not start with Leiter?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get a substantive response from the National Counterterrorism Center or its director, Michael Leiter, to yesterday&#8217;s Senate report singling it out for failure in the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab case. Instead, I got pointed to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair&#8217;s Wheatena-flavored reply. That might reflect the comfort Leiter has felt since the chairwoman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33N8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}