This is a nasty mess...revealing substantial procedural derangement at multiple levels.
This needs high-level Congressional investigation....the lesions identified.
If not..the alphabet agency budgets are obviously a waste of money...and an easy target for Congress’ budget action.
If I understand chains of command, the ‘derangement’ would have had to have been at the top. Junior Joes down the line undoubtedly did their reporting up, but couldn’t act.
Wasn’t this also the night that Obama went to bed at 11 PM EST, when the presumed ultimate killing was at 3 AM EST?
If the president would have been in line to receive continuing updates, as Col. Hunt reports, I wonder whom if anyone he delegated the receiving to—and if whomever had any authority to act or escalate (or interrupt his sleep).
Somehow I imagine Valerie the Iranian receiving updates and immediately moving them to the trash bin on her computer.