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U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday security lapses that led to a near-disaster in the Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound airliner were not the fault of a single individual or agency and suggested no one would be fired. He vowed the problems would be corrected.
In the president's bleak assessment and a White House-released report about what went wrong, the U.S. got an alarming picture of a post-Sept. 11 debacle: an intelligence community that failed to understand what it had. U.S. intelligence officials had enough information to identify the suspect as an al-Qaida terrorist operative and keep him off a plane but still could not identify and disrupt the plot and security measures didn't catch him, either.Obama's remarks were delayed twice as officials scrambled to declassify a six-page summary of a report he had ordered from top officials on the security failures. That summary was released immediately after he spoke, as was Obama's three-page directive to agency chiefs.See the full content of this document
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No Heads to Roll in Botched Attack
Obama says no one person, agency to blame
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday security lapses that led to a near-disaster in the Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound airliner were not the fault of a sin...See the full content of this document
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