A friend e-mails:

For what it’s worth, it seems to me that the natural villain here is the guy in charge of intel.
Napolitano is small potatoes. The CIA and State both say they sent the info to the NCTC, where it went to die.
Question: Who owns the National Counterterrorism Center?
Answer: Adm. Dennis Blair (Ret), Director of National Intelligence.
THE GUY in charge of America’s intelligence community — and integrating all the data fed into the system — is the one responsible for overseeing this “catastrophic systemic failure”.
That man is Adm. Dennis Blair.