Opinion

Clueless clapper

Question: What do you call the Director of National Intelligence when he seems to be short of intelligence?

Answer: James Clapper.

On Monday, Diane Sawyer asked the White House’s top anti-terrorism brains about the fallout from the sweeping arrests of 12 men in the UK early that morning.

Clapper’s response: Silence. Crickets. The sound of one career, well, imploding. Pressed by Sawyer, he admitted he simply hadn’t heard of the matter.

It was a mortifying lapse given Clapper’s position: As DNI, he oversees all 16 US intelligence agencies and serves as chief intel adviser to the president.

Yesterday, we congratulated Attorney General Eric Holder for finally recognizing the threat posed by homegrown terror. Little did we know the rest of Team Obama was busy napping in a bunker.

Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan put on a Beltway smile and tried to cast Clapper’s ignorance as a virtue.

Sure, the raid was all over the news Monday. But “I am glad,” Brennan said, “that Jim Clapper is not sitting in front of the TV 24 hours a day.”

Maybe he should be.

This is the same Brennan who defended jihad as a “legitimate tenet of Islam” back in May, and excused terrorists as victims of “social and economic forces.”

At least the White House has finally outlined its true security strategy.

Step 1: Pretend radical Muslims aren’t at war with the US. When that fails . . .

Step 2: Close your eyes.