Nicholas Johnston and Jeff Bliss
Bloomberg
Friday, January 8th, 2010
President Barack Obama said “the buck stops with
me” yesterday as he ordered measures to improve intelligence
operations and security screening in response to the attempted bombing
of an airliner on Christmas Day.
To foil future attacks, Obama directed heads of the main U.S.
intelligence agencies to set clear lines of responsibility for
following up leads on terrorist threats and to bolster the system for
adding names to watch lists.
Obama said agencies and their leaders will be held accountable if
they don’t carry out the necessary changes, He also said he
wasn’t “interested in passing out blame” for the Dec.
25 incident.
“As president, I have a solemn responsibility to protect our
nation and our people, and when the system fails, it is my
responsibility,” Obama said at the White House as the
administration released a declassified summary of a report on how a
Nigerian man with links to extremists was allowed to board a
Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam.
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