While President Obama has already spoken about a number of issues that will appear in today's report on the Christmas bomber, National Security Adviser James Jones says it will have greater shock value once people read it.
"The man on the street will be surprised that these correlations weren't made," he said. "There was data out there, there was a number of things that could have triggered a prevention of this individual ever getting on an airplane."
James did an interview Wednesday with USA Today:
"That's two strikes," Obama's top White House aide on defense and foreign policy issues said, referring to the foiled bombing of the Detroit-bound airliner and the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in November. In that case, too, officials failed to act when red flags were raised about an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan. He has been charged with killing 13 people.
Jones said Obama "certainly doesn't want that third strike, and neither does anybody else."
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