Dana Perino recently tweeted: Strains credulity to think that ice releases thousands of illegals and no one there ran it up the food chain. Not even a "heads up"? Hmmm.
The problem with this is that it shouldn't even matter if the President got a "heads up." We've seen this same excuse be used in Fast & Furious, Benghazi and many other recent scandals. But it's beside the point.
A submarine captain was court-martialed and convicted a number of years back, because one of the sub's pilots made an error that caused a collision with a civilian ship. The captain wasn't on the bridge at the time, and it wasn't his shift to be there. The first officer was over-seeing the pilot. The pilot and first officer were duly disciplined of course, but the captain wasn't allowed to simply say "Hey, it wasn't on my watch. Not my fault!"
On a naval ship, the captain is presumed to create the atmosphere that allows or discourages egregious negligence. The navy correctly recognizes that the pilot error didn't start at that incident, the pilot error started with a captain who created an environment of incompetence and insufficient oversight.
In these scandals, it's not sufficient for the President to simply say "sorry, not my call." Everything is the President's call, because he has responsibility for the atmosphere of accountability (or lack of it) he creates.
Secretary of State Clinton, Attorney General Holder, President Obama and other high officials of his administration have presided over multiple criminal and treasonous actions. They are responsible even if they didn't know about it, because it was their duty to establish an environment where they either knew, or the criminal decisions weren't made in the first place.
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