The following fact is settled.Luck, in the form of a failed detonator, prevented another successful Al-Qaeda mass murder attack on American soil on Christmas Day, 2009. In the aftermath of the attack, the Obama Administration quickly flooded the airwaves with an attempt to qualm our collective fears by declaring that the system used to protect us worked. Even after the backlash of such a ridiculous assertion and the president's subsequent politically-driven "hard pivot" away from it, over the weekend, his counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, reminded us that the administration's initial statement is what it truly believes.Sunday, Politico reported: White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan is maintaining the system to protect the U.S. against attack worked successfully this year apart from the Christmas Day bombing attempt - a claim that seems to downplay the notion that deadly attacks at Fort Hood in Texas and a military recruiting center in...(Read Full Post)