Obama’s vetting process…

You have to wonder about Obama’s vetting process.    Philip Mudd is his nonimee to be under-secretary of intelligence and analysis at Homeland Security.   But Mudd was deputy director of the Office of Terrorism Analysis at the CIA during the Bush administration,  and had direct knowledge of the agency’s harsh interrogation program.   Why would His Oneness nominate him?

And I barely got that written before I see that Mudd  has now withdrawn his name from consideration because he  doesn’t “want to cause a distraction.”     Which sounds like the Obama machine told him to go away.    Why would he nominate a man he wouldn’t defend?