His "the buck stops here" is nonsense.
Do we really expect a CEO to personally monitor emails and embassy visits to make sure the appropriate agencies are notified and the appropriate actions are taken. And the direct supervisors of the staff responsible for these deficiencies needs to correct them immediately. Obama is not responsible for their actions, the bureaucracy that is in place before he came on board and will be in place after he leaves is responsible, and they should be held accountable.
Anything else is just posturing.
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I agree with the whole of the post, BT. Don't see where it fits into this thread, but it WAS nonsense, a pathetic excuse for his failure to take action against those who apparently failed in their job.
If indeed they DID "fail in their job." If their job was to stage a provocation in the form of a fake attack on an airliner that was never meant to succeed, then they didn't pull it off completely, but had the misfortune to be overheard at a crucial point by a bystander who went public with what he overheard.
At this point, my mind is open to both possibilities - - one, he's just protecting those who tried to stage a provocation to justify the invasion of Yemen and had the misfortune to be overheard; or two, he's weaseling out of an obligation to fire underlings who have majorly fucked up.