Good afternoon, everybody. The immediate reviews that I ordered after the failed Christmas terrorist attack are now complete. I was just briefed on...

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will discuss her review of aviation screening, technology and procedures —- how that terrorist boarded...

In our ever-changing world, America's first line of defense is timely, accurate intelligence that is shared, integrated, analyzed, and acted upon quickly...

Second, this contributed to a larger failure of analysis —- a failure to connect the dots of intelligence that existed across our intelligence community...

In sum, the U.S. government had the information -- scattered throughout the system -- to potentially uncover this plot and disrupt the attack. Rather...

Today, I'm directing a series of additional corrective steps across multiple agencies. Broadly speaking, they fall into four areas.

Second, I'm directing that intelligence reports, especially those involving potential threats to the United States, be distributed more rapidly and...

And finally, I'm ordering an immediate effort to strengthen the criteria used to add individuals to our terrorist watchlists, especially the "no fly"...

But even the best intelligence can't identify in advance every individual who would do us harm. So we need the security -- at our airports, ports,...

As Secretary Napolitano will explain, the screening technologies that might have detected these explosives are in use at the Amsterdam airport, but...

And today, I'm directing that the Department of Homeland Security take additional steps, including: strengthening our international partnerships to...

I ordered these two immediate reviews so that we could take immediate action to secure our country. But in the weeks and months ahead, we will continue...

Now, at this stage in the review process it appears that this incident was not the fault of a single individual or organization, but rather a systemic...

Over the past two weeks, we've been reminded again of the challenge we face in protecting our country against a foe that is bent on our destruction....

And we know that the vast majority of Muslims reject al Qaeda. But it is clear that al Qaeda increasingly seeks to recruit individuals without known...

Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses, but we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values...

That's what it means to be strong in the face of violent extremism. That's how we will prevail in this fight. And that's how we will protect our country...