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On the recordDecember 24, 2009
As we all know, on this past Christmas Day, December 25, 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab slipped through the multi-layered defenses we have erected since September 11, 2001, to stop attacks against our homeland and boarded Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit over which he attempted a suicide bombing.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Lieberman discusses the Christmas Day attack and security failures.

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