Someone needs to bring this up:

Deputy national security adviser John Brennan complained Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that politicians, many of them Republicans, were unfairly criticizing the administration for partisan purposes and second-guessing the case with a "500-mile screwdriver" that reaches from Washington to the scene of the bombing attempt in Detroit.

"Quite frankly, I'm tiring of politicians using national security issues such as terrorism as a political football," Brennan said. "They are going out there. They're unknowing of the facts. And they're making charges and allegations that are not anchored in reality."

But they're living in their own reality, remember, and it's fundraising über alles.

Especially when they can ignore a shared reality:

Brennan said he had personally briefed top GOP lawmakers, including Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, on Christmas night about Abdulmutallab's arrest, and none of them raised objections.