"Your action," he wrote MacAskill, "makes a mockery of the grief of the families who lost their own on December 21, 1988. You could not have spent much time with the families, certainly not as much time as others involved in the investigation and prosecution." He ended the Lockerbie letter with a frustrated question: "Where, I ask, is the justice?" President Barack Obama on Friday called the elaborate homecoming in Libya for the freed bomber "highly objectionable."