Dennis Blair: DUH!

This is scary.

"Blair: FBI mishandled bomb case," Eli Lake, The Washington Times

"System Failure," Stephen F. Hayes, The Weekly Standard

"Duh"?

That's what we get from Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence?

"DUH"?

God help us.

Hayes writes:

With surprising candor, Blair, the nation's top intelligence official, explained that these officials were not deliberately excluded from the decisionmaking process in the immediate aftermath of the attack. Rather, he told the Senate Homeland Security Committee, there was no process at all.

"I've been a part of the discussions which established this high-value interrogation unit, [HIG] which we started as part of the executive order after the decision to close Guantanamo. That unit was created for exactly this purpose -- to make a decision on whether a certain person who's detained should be treated as a case for federal prosecution or for some of the other means. We did not invoke the HIG in this case," he said. "We should have."

That's quite an admission. Blair wasn't finished (see the 51:00 mark of this video). "Frankly, we were thinking more of overseas people and, duh!, we didn't put it then. That's what we will do now. And so we need to make those decisions more carefully. I was not consulted and the decision was made on the scene. It seemed logical to the people there but it should have been taken using this HIG format at a higher level."

When Blair said "Duh," he literally gave himself a slap on the forehead, as if to say, "I cannot believe we were that stupid." It was an appropriate gesture.

Unbelievable.

Obama's EXECUTIVE ORDER to close Guantanamo set in motion a dangerous, potentially deadly breakdown in protecting Americans.

This is what the change Obama promised has wrought.