President Obama is making another statement on the failed terror attack on Christmas Day, and he isn’t mincing words about the failures of the system that’s supposed to identify possible threats.

Here’s a thread to discuss.

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What’s also clear is this: when our government has information on a known extremist, and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could have cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred. And I consider that totally unacceptable.

The reviews I’ve ordered will surely tell us more, but what’s already apparent is that there was a mix of human and systemic failures that contributed to this potential catastrophic breach of security. We need to learn from this episode and act quickly to fix the flaws in our system because our security is at stake and lives are at stake.