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 ...
the system failed to stop the Christmas bomber.
So we have to do better, and we will do better, and we have to do it quickly. American lives are on the line.
Again, no one stepped down. No one has been fired. And what we keep hearing from government officials is, this is not th...
I want specific recommendations for corrective actions to fix what went wrong. I want those reforms implemented immediat...
There is Leon Panetta, the CIA chief. His agency debriefed the bomber's father. The question is, what happened to that i...
We are determined not only to thwart those plans but to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat their networks once and for all.
We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting to...
I will not tolerate it.
All people are born with an unalienable right to freedom.
I encourage Americans to give back by mentoring young people in their communities who may lack role models.