After a meeting with his national security advisers today, President Obama said the nation’s airline security system had “failed” to thwart the failed Christmas bombing of a Northwest flight.Obama began by acknowledging the failure that resulted in the Christmas day attack: “When a suspected terrorist is able to board a plane with explosives on Christmas day, the system has failed in a potentially disastrous way.”
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