President Obama: "Systemic Failure" Has Occurred
In a marked change of tone from his remarks Monday, President Barack Obama said today that a “systemic failure” led to the failed terrorist attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day.
“When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted on as it should have been,” Obama said, “a Systemic Failure has occurred, and I consider that unacceptable.”
The President also announced that Tuesday morning he issued formal guidelines for the reviews he ordered over the weekend of the government’s terrorist watch-list system and airline screening procedures and directed that the reviews’ preliminary findings be provided to the White House on Thursday.
“It’s essential that we diagnose the problems quickly and deal with them immediately,” Obama said in remarks at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
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