US intelligence chief quits after spate of failed terror attacks
Blair, a retired Navy admiral, is the third director of national intelligence, a position created in response to public outrage over the failure to prevent the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
His departure underscores the disorganisation inside the Obama administration’s intelligence apparatus, rocked over the past six months by a spate of high-profile attempted terror attacks that revealed new national security lapses.
