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 have placed the suspect on the no-fly list.
President Obama discusses the failure of the intelligence community to prevent the Christmas Day bombing attempt.
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