Obama Says Christmas Day Incident Could Have Been Disrupted
President Obama said that the government had sufficient information to uncover the plot to blow up a commercial jet on Christmas Day had it used the information it received. Echoing what was said about the attacks of September 11, 2001, he said "This was not a failure to collect intelligence," but it was "It was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had."
Obama Says Plot Could Have Been Disrupted, Jeff Zeleny and Helen Cooper, New York Times, January 5, 2010
