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...then at the end produced a massive report. The FCIC says it will hold most of its hearings in public, and will quickly release any information it uncovers. Two members of the panel, Keith Hennessey and Byron Georgiou, have their own blogs. Last week, Hennessey, who was a White House economics adviser to President George W. Bush, asked readers what he should be asking bank CEOs. (See the worst business deals...
...Staff writer William N. White can be reached at wwhite@fas.harvard.edu...
...counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, suggested in a briefing afterward that there was little direct blame to be apportioned. "This was not the failure of a single individual or a single organization," Brennan said, calling the failures "systemic." But a moment later, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs suggested that such discipline - which he termed corrective action - may still be forthcoming. Explaining that Thursday's release focused narrowly on implementing the preliminary review, Gibbs said, "We don't have any announcements other than that today...
...report blames both the White House and the national-security staff for failing to identify the possibility that analysts would miss such crucial information. In a statement to the press after the President spoke, Brennan, who leads counterterrorism efforts at the White House and conducted the probe himself, seemed to take responsibility for this part of the failure. "I told the President today, I let him down," Brennan said. "I am the President's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism. And I told him that I will do better, and we will do better as a team...
Obama issued a series of corrective measures Thursday for agencies across the government, including instructions for the intelligence community to review its procedures, for the State Department to review its handling of visas and for White House staffers to continue their investigations into systemic failures. In the coming weeks and months, the shortcomings that led up to the Christmas Day bombing attempt are sure to be investigated by Congress and perhaps other agencies - including the inspectors general who oversee the intelligence community. Those inquiries may do more to single out individuals who failed to do their jobs, if the President...