Janet Napolitano, US homeland security secretary, yesterday conceded that flaws in existing security procedures had allowed a man armed with explosives to board a Detroit-bound trans- atlantic flight on Christmas Day.
As President Barack Obama prepared to speak for the first time in public about the foiled attack, Ms Napolitano backtracked from her earlier insistence that the security system at US airports had worked.
“No secretary of homeland security would sit here and say that a system worked . . . which allowed this individual to get on this plane,” she told Fox News.
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