Obama says anti-terror ‘buck’ stops with him. Such strong words! I am sure we can all fly safer now and sleep better after such forceful words.

The anti terrorism buck stop with Obama. Doesn't every buck stop at Obama? If this whinmpy speech is suppossed to make Americans feel better then Obama fell way short of the target. Obama also mentioned that no one will lose their job over this near terrorist disaster. Sorry, but heads should roll and people should get sacked. Jamet Napolitano for one, Hilary Clinton could be another one. Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center since 2007, is another one who really should be sacked. Not returning until a few days after this happened because he was on a ski trip? WTF is up with that one. What about those rocket scientitsts that were going to question Nigerian bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab AFTER the palne had landed? Now that is some brilliant strategy! They were most fortunate there was a plane that landed with this mussie pig terrorist, out under wraps by some very fast thinking passengers.


Please America, fluff your pillows, pull your covers up a
little snugger because Uncle Tobama used the word WAR and
since that word was banned, and Obama used it in this speech,
all is well. Move along, there is nothing to see or hear.
But the smell from this incident? Well that is another story

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Obama: 'The buck stops with me'

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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" for the nation's security, taking responsibility for failures that led to the near-disastrous Christmas attack on a Detroit-bound airliner and vowing the problems would be corrected. He said the lapses were widespread but suggested no officials would be fired.

Obama didn't tell intelligence officials to dramatically change what they're doing. Instead, he told them to do it better, and faster. He left it to them to figure out how.

Clearly aware of the potential political fallout, Obama struck a tough tone toward the anti-terror fight, taking the rare step — for him — of calling it a "war."

In one concrete change, the administration is adding more air marshals to flights. Hundreds of law enforcement officers from Homeland Security Department agencies are being trained and deployed to the federal Air Marshal Service, said a government official familiar with the strategy.
There are more than 4,000 federal air marshals but many times that number for domestic and international flights each day.

In the president's bleak assessment and a White House-released report about what went wrong, the country got an alarming picture of a post-Sept. 11 debacle: an intelligence community that failed to understand what it had. U.S. intelligence officials had enough information to identify the suspect as an al-Qaida terrorist operative and keep him off a plane but still could not identify and disrupt the plot, and security measures didn't catch him, either.

A dozen changes

Obama announced about a dozen changes designed to fix that, including new terror watch list guidelines, wider and quicker distribution of intelligence reports, stronger analysis of those reports, international partnerships and an interagency effort to develop next-generation airport screening technologies.

More inquiries are on the way.

"It is appalling that we have not learned from our mistakes, eight years after the worst terror attacks in our nation's history," said Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which will hold its first hearing on the subject on Jan. 21, probably in private.

While Obama promised improved security, his solutions were laced with bureaucratic reshuffling.

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