President Says U.S. Missed Key Bomb Clues

Dots? What dots? Those aren't dots? Those are just some poor, abused Middle Easterners wanting to go home to their falafel. They just happen to have bad friends.

By JONATHAN WEISMAN, SIOBHAN GORMAN and EVAN PEREZ

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, in his harshest remarks yet on the terrorism threat facing the nation, said U.S. intelligence agencies knew that al Qaeda in Yemen was targeting the United States, but "failed to connect those dots" to thwart a Christmas Day bombing attempt.

The White House suspends transfers of Yemeni detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to their home country.

The remarks capped a day in which the president, facing heat from Republicans over what they paint as a lackluster initial response, summoned his full cabinet to meetings on counterterrorism in an effort to show his administration's engagement on the issue.

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It is good of the President to take time to be "engaged."