Brennan: ‘Clearly The System Didn’t Work On That Day’ Appearing on Meet The Press, Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan bluntly admitted that there were intelligence failures in the Flight 253 attempted bombing. “Clearly the system didn’t work on that day, because Abdulmutallab should never have gotten onto that plane with those explosives,” said Brennan, who also said that President Obama “needs to hold everybody accountable, including me.”
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