Obama calls incident a systemic failure in security lapse
President Obama says the Christmas Day attack attempt exposed systemic and human failures across aviation security. He ordered two investigations with preliminary results due by Thursday to examine lapses in screening and watchlist sharing, while defending Homeland Security and criticizing earlier remarks.
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State Department says counterterrorism agencies were warned Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab might be under extremist influence before the Christmas Day attempt. Officials coordinated via the National Counterterrorism Center and says the information from the father on November 20 was insufficient to revoke his two year tourist visa issued in 2008.
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