The good news is that Team Obama is working hard at (and having some success in) keeping us from losing our shit. Napolitano tried to wiggle thru with some spin about 'at least part of the system worked' - and she got spanked for it, but the demands for her scalp were fairly muted and short-lived.
It's also good that only a few Repubs (plus of course, all the rocket scientists at Cluster Fox) are saying demonstrably stupid things like:
-it's a horrible thing that Obama took 3 whole days to say anything about the attack.
(Bush took 6 days to address the Shoe Bomber incident in Dec 2001)
-there were no terrorist attacks under Bush.
(can you say Nine-Eleven? Shoe Bomber? Antrax? DC Sniper? UNC Chapel Hill?)
It may be that the bad news has to do with our getting a glimpse of the political intrigue at work in DC. We don't usually get to see much of the real workings of governance, much less the maneuverings of people who lust after power. Some of what I've heard and read the last several days points to a probability that the dots weren't connected because somebody didn't want the dots connected. That doesn't necessarily indicate some big conspiracy to screw Obama or to jack up the stock price of some Security Contractor though. Sometimes, you get a piece of info from a source you've been working on for a long time, and you don't just turn it over to another agency because you're worried about how that colleague will use the info; possibly blowin' your deal with your source, or even endangering people's lives - certainly, there could be ripple affects through operations you've never even heard of.
This time, a Nigerian ambassador directly and openly warned the US State Dept and somehow we either missed it; or purposely ignored it in order to play it to our better advantage in some other way? It's just not adding up.
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