Obama's Blown Opportunity

Here's how the Obama Administration fumbled a primo intelligence asset.

In interviews with The Associated Press, U.S. officials described for the first time the details of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's arrest Dec. 25 at Detroit Metro Airport.

Captured after a bomb hidden in his underwear ignited but failed to explode, Abdulmutallab spoke freely and provided valuable intelligence, officials said. Federal agents repeatedly interviewed him or heard him speak to others. But when they read him his legal rights nearly 10 hours after the incident, he went silent.

And then there's this damning bit of information.

There was no effort to call in the elite federal High-Value Interrogation Group, a special unit of terror specialists that the Obama administration said early last year it would create to deal with terror suspects captured abroad.

The Obama Administration didn't even use the assets it had created!!!!!!!!!! Or perhaps this High-Value Interrogation Group exists only in the world of Obama's rhetoric - like so many of his promises.

No wonder the Washington Post described Obama's treatment of Abdulmutallab's handling as, “myopic, irresponsible and potentially dangerous.”