WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took ultimate responsibility on Thursday for security lapses that allowed the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner and ordered reforms aimed at thwarting future attacks.
Obama outlined the new steps, including tightened passenger screening and expanded terrorism watchlists, as the White House released a declassified account of what went wrong leading up to the Dec. 25 incident in which a Nigerian man allegedly came close to blowing up a flight from Amsterdam.
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