Today With President Barack Obama: Obama To Speak on Security Review Summary Jan. 7

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Obama To Speak on Security Review Summary Jan. 7

Update: See Obama's remarks here.

Live stream. Up next Janet Napolitano.

Update: Obama's remarks have been postponed until 4:30 pm.

Obama has a lot of meetings today, including one with Bill Clinton, and at 3 pm eastern, he will speak about the unclassified security review on the failed underwear bomb plot. Obama's remarks will be live streamed at WhiteHouse.gov. I'll post video later. Janet Napolitano will speak at the daily press briefing, which will be live streamed at 3:45 pm at WhiteHouse.gov. More information is trickling out, including the fact that the CIA discovered who the bomber was while he was on the plane. Apparently, the report will be shocking.

White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel "a certain shock" when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane.
President Obama "is legitimately and correctly alarmed that things that were available, bits of information that were available, patterns of behavior that were available, were not acted on," Jones said in an interview Wednesday with USA TODAY. Read more.