U.S. Senators during their Homeland Security Committee hearings heard testimony by the country's upper-echelon law enforcement and anti-terrorism officials -- including FBI director Robert Mueller, National Counterterrorism Center director Michael Leiter, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano -- that none of them were consulted by the White House or the Department of Justice about the decision to process the Christmas Day "Underwear Bomber" in the civilian criminal justice system.