A WARNING ABOUT TERROR – AT 10:32 A.M. ET:  You'd think the Obamans would have gotten the message by now:  Important government positions must be filled, and offices must be up and running, especially when the safety of the population is involved. 

Apparently, the memo got misfiled, as Fox reports:

Vacancies in the United States' intelligence leadership, including the director of national intelligence and his chief deputies, are raising alarms over a potential "train wreck" of vulnerability, intelligence sources and others on Capitol Hill tell Fox News.

The goal of the national director is to maximize assets across the intelligence community. But the senior Republican on the House intelligence committee says that is not happening because the position, the nation’s top intelligence official, is now subordinate to the White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan.

“The other DNIs have always been very, very professional. They've never been political. Under this administration, John Brennan has politicized intelligence. That's the danger here,” Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan said, adding that Brennan is not subject to congressional oversight as a presidential appointee.

The job opened up when previous Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair was forced out last month after a series of apparent intelligence failures raised questions about the country's preparedness for detecting and stopping new terror plots.

The president's choice to replace Blair is James Clapper, a retired Air Force general and currently the top intelligence official within the defense department, but he still needs to be confirmed by the Senate.

COMMENT:  It is only a matter of time before there's another attempted terror attack on the United States.  An election year would be a good time for terror groups to try to shake things up and embarrass the president, if this president can be embarrassed.

There are other reports that government agencies, some nine years after 9-11, are still not prepared to handle a mass attack.  Well, I can't confirm that, but please note the federal response to the oil spill.  Fill you with confidence?

June 26, 2010