The problem for the GOP congressional leadership on the Hill is that when you put the facts together it’s clear that it didn’t occur to them that anything to do with Abdulmutallab’s handing was a problem until days later when Dick Cheney started gunning them up over the red herring of ‘mirandizing’ him.
So basically all the stuff about what Brennan told them or didn’t tell them in that briefing is beside the point. They knew exactly how Abdulmutallab had been handled. And they didn’t think it was a problem until days later when Dick Cheney told them it was. Then they went back and came up with a story about how if they only would have known they would have been screaming to high heaven.
We’ll have more on this on Wednesday.
