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Obama's Reverse Spin: "This Was A Screw Up" - Crossroads - CBS News
It's nice to have a president who can recognize the obvious, and state it publicly. Our Homeland Security Administration has no clothes.
Speaking somberly and forcefully from the White House, Obama said the government had "sufficient information" to have potentially disrupted the attack, but that the intelligence community "failed to connect those dots." He spoke of the "the human and systemic failures that almost cost nearly 300 lives," and he vowed, "we will do better."
He was more blunt in a private meeting with top advisers just before he spoke before the cameras: "This was a screw up that could have been disastrous. We dodged a bullet but just barely. It was averted by brave individuals, not because the system worked, and that is not acceptable."
It's nice to have a president who can recognize the obvious, and state it publicly. Our Homeland Security Administration has no clothes.