Connecting the Dots

Retiring Senator, Joe Lieberman, said today that it should have been easy to prevent the recent Boston Marathon bombings and that it was a failure to “connect the dots" between federal intelligence sources and local law enforcement agencies … see:. CBS News Story.

Now as it turns out our federal government spent $50 million dollars from 2005 to 2008 with The Analysis Corporation to develop a system that was meant to do just this.  (And I wager we have spent considerably more with this company since.)  Now for the critical question, Joe ... who was CEO of the Analysis Corporation during this period?

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None other than our current director of the CIA … John Brennan

What else has this $50 million "connect the dots system" missed?  See: Heads Should Roll for another (of many) instances.

Head(s) Should Roll

President Obama recently called it a "screwup" in the U.S. intelligence community over the Nigerian Islamic terrorist's attempted crotch-bombing of an airliner over Detroit. Now our President is pointing his finger at these same intelligence agencies for their inability to connect the dots. But as the old canard goes: "When you point your finger outward, three more fingers point back at you." By this I mean that Obama's National Security Czar, John Brennan, after a dismal performance on Fox News this past Sunday (see: Dodge and Weave), has, up until now, evaded any culpability for these "systemic failures" (also Obama's words).

But, what hasn't been generally reported is that John Brennan was the primary person responsible for the software and database that was built to connect these dots, see: the Rest of the Story. He,"having designed and built our multi-agency terrorist threat integration center", now is charged by our empty-suit (but stuffed-shirt) of a President to fix things. From 2005 to 2008 he was the CEO of Analysis Corp. (see: The Analysis Corporation) which spent $50 million of taxpayers funds to build the terrorist-screening system that was supposed to be the ultimate in dot-connectors. Oops.

May I humbly suggest that John Brennan's head clearly should be the first to roll ... closely followed by Janet Napolitano's.