Krauthammer On Boston Bombings: "Beginning To Unfold How Much They Screwed Up Here"
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, as you said, maybe we could pay the lawyers with the million dollars that we're spending, as you said in the grapevine, on nothing. On the $60 a year on the 12,000 empty bank accounts. It is preposterous that a government that spends $3.6 trillion is unable to find enough to end up paying for a public defender. So that's just a farce.
But I think what's really happening here is you're getting a huge embarrassment and defensive actions on the part of the administration as it's beginning to unfold how much they screwed up here. We now know that there were three agencies of this administration that had information about the brother, the elder brother. CIA, FBI, and as we heard yesterday the Secretary of Homeland Security said there was a ping in the system when he went over and visited Russia. So -- and the fact that not one of the three contacted or exchanged information with the other two is really damning, particularly if you put it in the context of where you're standing today.
The one thing that the Bush administration and the presidency did is it kept us safe, but not only in its own seven years, had it established the entire infrastructure. It redid the entire organization of the intelligence agencies in order to make sure that we wouldn't have a repeat of 9/11 where one agency isn't hearing what the other agency knows. And that has persisted, but it looks as if in this administration it has all fallen apart.
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