Which Obama Appointee Will Go Next? Blair Or Napolitano?

Mitchell Predicts: Head To Roll



Not a surprise, but still noteworthy: a heavy MSM hitter is now strongly suggesting that, post-NWA 253, a senior Obama admin official will be walking the plank.

Say what we will of her, but Andrea Mitchell has her sources. So when the NBC correspondent declared on Morning Joe today that she suspects "somebody is either going to be resigning or forced to resign," we can pretty much take it to the [Federal Reserve?] bank.

ANDREA MITCHELL: The president was surprisingly tough about the systemic failure. That tells me, it certainly tells people who cover the White House [Chuck Todd in Hawaii with PBO, perhaps?] that something is going to happen. You talked about it just a bit ago, and it seems to me that somebody--Dan Senor mentioned this--somebody is going to have to pay the price for this.

Whether it's Dennis Blair [Director of National Intelligence] or someone else in the system, it's very clear that the president wants accountability and he said that there's going to be accountability. And somebody I would suspect is going to either be resigning or forced to resign.

I'm sure Blair isn't thrilled to be the only person whose name Mitchell mentioned. But whatever his fate, is it conceivable, given her "system worked" fiasco, that Janet Napolitano is long for the Department of Homeland Security?




Burton Calls For Napolitano's Scalp


Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) — the guy who blew away a pumpkin to replicate Vince Foster's "murder" and called President Clinton a "scumbag" — is the first Republican out of the box to call for DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano's resignation.

Never mind that half of Burton's press release implicates the FBI, DOJ, State Department and foreign governments just as much as DHS. ...

He concludes that, like a January Santa hat, Napolitano's just got to go!


“The details surrounding Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s attempt to kill hundreds of Americans on Northwest Flight 253 amount to what is a phenomenal breach of security. This Al Qaeda operative offered no shortage of red flags, but none caught the eye of intelligence and security officials. Reports indicated that the laundry list of warning signs includes Mr. Abdulmutallab, who was on the terrorist watch list, buying a one-way ticket with cash, not checking any luggage, and boarding the flight without a passport. Most shocking, his father told the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, weeks ago, that his son had been radicalized and is dangerous".

"The fact that this security breach occurred in such a brazen way means that there was a level of significant incompetence involved, and I believe that rests solely on the shoulders of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. After serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee for the last 25 years, I can say with certainty that Secretary Napolitano does not have the background or experience necessary to execute her responsibilities. Her bizarre remarks on Sunday were the final straw in a series of embarrassing and incompetent comments this year. By saying ‘the system worked,’ Secretary Napolitano has undermined the confidence of Americans".



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