Director of National Intelligence resigns

ABC News:

ABC News has learned that President Obama will replace the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair (ret.) His resignation will come as soon as tomorrow, sources tell ABC News.

For several weeks President Obama has been holding serious conversations about whether to ask Blair to step down and has interviewed candidates to replace him. After a discussion this afternoon between the president and Blair on a secure phone line about the best way forward, Blair offered to resign and the president said he would accept, sources told ABC News.

Multiple administration sources tell ABC News that Blair’s tenure internally has been a rocky one.

On the heels of a number of intelligence failures involving the Fort Hood shooter, failed Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab, and questions about failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, it was no longer clear that Blair -- tasked with coordinating the 16 intelligence agencies and ensuring that they cooperate and share information – still had the full and complete confidence of the president, sources say.

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The problem is not Blair. It is Obama and Holder. They have stopped all CIA interrogation of enemy combatants, and they are doing little to capture most of them. Instead they are using drones and Hellfire missiles to kill them and the to hell with any information they might have on pending strikes.

Speaking of pending strikes, the Obama team has been lucky to capture some of the terrorist after the fact. These captures are not the results of a good offense though. They are the results of bumbling terrorist and luck on our part. We are in this position because Obama has put us on the strategic defensive.

We send in the FBI after the fact and go the lawfare route which failed to deter attack before 9-11. Obama never comprehended what VP Cheney was saying about the importance of enemy interrogation and how it prevented attacks. As a results we are getting the attacks and hoping we stay lucky.