White House released security review conducted in X-mas terrorist attack

White House website:


Release of the Security Review Conducted After the Failed Christmas Terrorist Attack
The review of our security and intelligence systems following the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day has been completed. The President spoke two days ago about "the urgency of getting this right," and the identification of failures in this review, along with the immediate ordering of reforms and corrective steps both today and in the days since this incident, are a recognition of that urgency.


Read the summary of the security review (pdf).

Read the President's Directive on corrective actions (pdf).

Read the transcript of this press briefing with Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Brennan, and Press Secretary Gibbs.

Also this nugget:

Flight 253 review details Embassy meeting with Abdulmutallab's father:

For example, on November 18, Mr. Abdulmutallab's father met with U.S. Embassy officers in Abuja, Nieria, to discuss his concerns that his son may have come under the influence of unidentified extremists, and had planned to travel to Yemen. Though this information alone could not predict Mr. Abdulmutallab's eventual involvement in the attempted 25 December attack, it provided an opportunity to link information on him with earlier intelligence reports that contained fragmentary information.