Obama Laments Security Breach, Takes Veiled Swipe at Bush

You didn’t expect Obama to not take a swipe at his predecessor, did you?

After realizing he looked like an incompetent boob for hiding in Hawaii after a terrorist boarded a US plane with his undwerwear loaded with explosives, The One’s advisors must have told him he needed to issue a stronger statement and defend Janet Napolitano. Sans video, he made another statement today.

President Barack Obama said a “potential catastrophic breach” allowed the alleged Christmas Day bomber to set his attack into motion, as it emerged that multiple U.S. agencies met in mid-November to discuss a warning from the accused bomber’s father.

The father of terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab met on Nov. 19 with the Central Intelligence Agency at the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, and told of his son’s likely radicalization, according to U.S. officials.

That led to a broader meeting the next day in which the information was shared with representatives of the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the State Department, a U.S. official said. Officials said it is unclear whether intelligence officials in Washington then effectively analyzed the information gathered in Nigeria.

I guess it was George Bush’s policy for CIA investigators to ignore warnings from the parents of radical Islamists.

“It’s becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up to date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have.”

In ObamaLand, the buck never stops with Obama.

Correction: When I first posted this, I noted Obama made his statement without a tie. That was the first statement. The second statement was a recording with no video. Sorry about that.