Barack Obama actually said...

"There is Leon Panetta, the CIA chief. His agency debriefed the bomber's father. The question is, what happened to that intelligence after those briefings?"

"The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack. But our intelligence community failed to connect those dots which would hav..."

"Again, no one stepped down. No one has been fired. And what we keep hearing from government officials is, this is not the time to point fingers."

"the system failed to stop the Christmas bomber."