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| Obama says bomb attempt an intellig |
| Obama says bomb attempt an intelligence 'screw-up'
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 6-January-2010
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The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a US airliner was a potentially disastrous "screw up" by the intelligence community, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday as he vowed urgent action to tighten air security.
Sharpening his tone as he sought to limit political fallout over the intelligence breakdown, Obama said spy agencies had enough information to uncover the Dec. 25 plot to blow up a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam but failed to "connect those dots."
On Obama's first full day back from his Hawaii vacation, he faced the challenge of spotlighting national security -- suddenly pushed to the top of his agenda -- while not looking distracted from other pressing public concerns like reducing double-digit US unemployment.
"We have to do better and we will do better. And we will do it quickly," Obama said after a two-hour meeting with his national security team to discuss what he has called "human and systemic failures" in the Christmas Day incident.
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