On December 26, two days after Nigerian Omar Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use underwear packed with plastic explosives to blow up the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight he was on, and as it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its most embarrassing failure in the area of national security, senior Obama White House aides, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and new White House counsel Robert Bauer, ordered staff to begin researching similar breakdowns — if any — from the Bush Administration.

“The idea was that we’d show that the Bush Administration had had far worse missteps than we ever could,” says a staffer in the counsel’s office. “We were told that classified material involving anything related to al Qaeda operating in Yemen or Nigeria was fair game and that we’d declassify it if necessary.”

Joe Lieberman is a democratic neo-con and is part of the problem not the solution…..

Sorry if the above offends some NQ readers, but I seek to draw a contrast between those who are willing to go out and fight for us at the pointy end of the spear, and it doesn’t get any more pointy than at Khost, and a White House that looks at everything through the prism of how it effects their domestic political fortunes.  I still haven’t heard anything from the White House on this yet, but perhaps after he finishes up the last hole, the President may take some time off from vacation to comment one way or the other.

To bad the clip was a bite and and not enough to under stand the context.

I wonder what Blair knows and I wonder how much of it he’ll share with the public if “forced” to resign.  I know I wouldn’t go quietly. But then again, maybe he’s willing to take the fall and be rewarded somehow later on with a cushy private position thanks to the Chicago crew. That way, it looks like he’s punished but not really.

As for Yemen, I’m curious too about who knows what. Never fear, they will find a way to blame it all on Bush and his Administration first and foremost.