From Tuesday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On Shirley Sherrod’s firing:

That was a really remarkable statement from the NAACP. They obviously reacted without even knowing that this [Sherrod’s racially tinged action] had happened a quarter century ago — in their original statement, they seemed to be under the impression that this had happened while she was at the USDA.
And the Obama administration — they didn’t speak to her. As she said herself in the interview, nobody spoke to her, nobody from USDA had spoken to her, nobody from the NAACP had spoken to her.
She is owed an apology, restitution, and the restoration of her job. I don’t think there is any question about that. …
She did say, interestingly, that this is because of what the NAACP did in attacking the Tea Party, which it did … egregiously, gratuitously, and without any [evidentiary] support. … As a result of that provocation, she was essentially saying the NAACP had to undo it by then throwing her under a bus without even looking at her case. And I think her analysis of that is entirely right.

On the intel problems highlighted by the Washington Post’s Top Secret America investigative series:

The real problem is that the DNI, this new superstructure, was invented without the proper authority. It doesn’t have the power of the purse. It’s just another layer of bureaucracy which makes things even more complicated.
And look at results, not just process. I am worried about the product, about the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate about Iranian nukes which was completely wrong — and remains uncorrected three years later. And the Christmas Day bomber who was undetected. We have huge holes in the system despite its size, and it’s a result of the fact that we increase the size of everything without logically organizing or giving authority at the top.