Michael Leiter Ski Trip

It's been revealed that Michael Leiter, National Counterterrorism Center Director, skied while "suspect" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underpants burned.

National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter did not cut short his holiday ski trip when he learned of the attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

Leiter, who is in charge of analyzing terror threats, didn't return to his office post in McLean, Va., until several days after the holiday, a decision that has raised some eyebrows in the intelligence community.

"People have been grumbling that he didn't let a little terrorism interrupt his vacation," a source told the Daily News.

The NCTC, the government's primary organization for analyzing all terrorism intelligence, has been roundly criticized for failing to "connect the dots" on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with plotting to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it flew from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.

Why should Leiter be expected to leave the slopes?

Janet Napolitano announced that all was well. She said the "system has worked really very, very smoothly."

Everything was under control.

Obama didn't make any public statements about the attempted attack for days. He stayed on the basketball court and the golf course and romped in the surf.

There was absolutely no sense of urgency.

Why should Leiter have been expected to cut short his ski trip just became an alleged crime occurred?

Alleged crimes happen.

Relax.