I just concluded a meeting with members of my national security team, including those from our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement agencies involved in the security reviews that I ordered after the failed attack on Christmas Day. 我刚刚结束了与国家安全团队成员的会议，与会者包括情报、国土安全和执法部门中参与我在圣诞节失败的袭击事件后下令进行安全审查的官员。
I called these leaders to the White House because we face a challenge of the utmost urgency. As we saw on Christmas, al Qaeda and its extremist allies will stop at nothing in their efforts to kill Americans. And we are determined not only to thwart those plans, but to disrupt, dismantle and defeat their networks once and for all. 我把这些领导人召集到白宫，因为我们面临一个极为紧迫的挑战。正如我们在圣诞节所看到的，基地组织及其极端主义盟友将不择手段地企图杀害美国人。我们决心不仅要挫败这些阴谋，还要彻底瓦解、粉碎并击败他们的网络。
Indeed, over the past year, we've taken the fight to al Qaeda and its allies wherever they plot and train, be it in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Yemen and Somalia, or in other countries around the world. 事实上，在过去一年里，无论基地组织及其盟友在哪里策划和训练——无论是在阿富汗和巴基斯坦、也门和索马里，还是在世界其他国家和地区——我们都将战斗打到他们面前。
Here at home, our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement agencies have worked together with considerable success: gathering intelligence, stitching it together, and making arrests -- from Denver to Texas, from Illinois to New York -- disrupting plots and saving American lives. And these successes have not come without a price, as we saw last week in the loss of our courageous CIA officers in Afghanistan. 在国内，我们的情报、国土安全和执法机构通力合作，取得了相当大的成功：收集情报、将其串联起来、实施逮捕——从丹佛到得克萨斯，从伊利诺伊到纽约——挫败阴谋、拯救美国人的生命。而这些成功并非没有代价，正如我们上周在阿富汗失去勇敢的中情局官员时所看到的那样。
But when a suspected terrorist is able to board a plane with explosives on Christmas Day the system has failed in a potentially disastrous way. And it's my responsibility to find out why, and to correct that failure so that we can prevent such attacks in the future. 但是，当一个疑似恐怖分子能够在圣诞节携带爆炸物登上飞机时，这一系统已经以可能造成灾难性后果的方式失灵了。我有责任查明原因，纠正这一失误，以便我们能够在未来防止此类袭击的发生。
And that's why, shortly after the attempted bombing over Detroit, I ordered two reviews. I directed Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to review aviation screening, technology and procedures. She briefed me on her initial findings today, and I'm pleased that this review is drawing on the best science and technology, including the expertise of Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and his department. 正因如此，在底特律上空未遂爆炸事件发生后不久，我下令进行两项审查。我指示国土安全部长珍妮特·纳波利塔诺审查航空安检的技术与程序。她今天向我汇报了初步调查结果，我很高兴这项审查正在借鉴最优秀的科学技术，包括能源部长朱棣文及其部门的专业知识。
I also directed my counterterrorism and homeland security advisor John Brennan to lead a thorough review into our terrorist watch-listing system so we can fix what went wrong. As we discussed today, this ongoing review continues to reveal more about the human and systemic failures that almost cost nearly 300 lives. We will make a summary of this preliminary report public within the next few days, but let me share some of what we know so far. 我还指示我的反恐与国土安全顾问约翰·布伦南牵头对我们的恐怖分子观察名单制度进行全面审查，以便我们修复出错的环节。正如我们今天讨论的，这项持续进行的审查不断揭示出更多几乎让近三百人丧生的人为失误和系统性失灵。我们将在未来几天内公布这份初步报告的摘要，但请允许我先分享一些我们目前已掌握的情况。
As I described over the weekend, elements of our intelligence community knew that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had traveled to Yemen and joined up with extremists there. It now turns out that our intelligence community knew of other red flags -- that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula sought to strike not only American targets in Yemen, but the United States itself. And we had information that this group was working with an individual who was known -- who we now know was in fact the individual involved in the Christmas attack. 正如我在周末所描述的，我们情报界的一些部门知道奥马尔·法鲁克·阿卜杜勒穆塔拉布曾前往也门并与那里的极端分子会合。现在发现，我们的情报界还知道其他危险信号——阿拉伯半岛基地组织不仅企图袭击也门的美国目标，还企图袭击美国本土。而且我们掌握的情报显示，该组织正与一名已知人物合作——我们现在知道，此人实际上就是参与圣诞节袭击的那个人。
The bottom line is this: The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack. But our intelligence community failed to connect those dots, which would have placed the suspect on the "no fly" list. In other words, this was not a failure to collect intelligence; it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had. The information was there. Agencies and analysts who needed it had access to it. And our professionals were trained to look for it and to bring it all together. 归根结底是这样的：美国政府掌握了足以揭露这一阴谋并可能借此阻止圣诞节袭击的信息。但我们的情报界未能将这些线索串联起来，而本应据此将嫌疑人列入"禁飞名单"。换言之，这不是情报收集的失败，而是整合和理解我们已掌握情报的失败。信息就在那里。需要这些信息的机构和分析师都能获取到。我们的专业人员也受过训练去寻找并将这些信息汇总到一起。
Now, I will accept that intelligence, by its nature, is imperfect, but it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully leveraged. That's not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it. Time and again, we've learned that quickly piecing together information and taking swift action is critical to staying one step ahead of a nimble adversary. 现在，我承认情报工作本质上就是不完美的，但越来越明显的是，情报没有得到充分的分析和利用。这是不可接受的，我也不会容忍。我们一次又一次地认识到，迅速拼凑信息并采取果断行动，对于保持领先于灵活的敌人一步至关重要。
So we have to do better -- and we will do better. And we have to do it quickly. American lives are on the line. So I made it clear today to my team: I want our initial reviews completed this week. I want specific recommendations for corrective actions to fix what went wrong. I want those reforms implemented immediately, so that this doesn't happen again and so we can prevent future attacks. 因此，我们必须做得更好——我们也一定会做得更好。而且我们必须迅速行动。美国人的生命攸关。所以我今天向我的团队明确表示：我希望本周完成初步审查。我希望得到纠正错误的具体建议。我希望立即实施这些改革，以确保此类事件不再发生，并使我们能够防止未来的袭击。
And I know that every member of my team that I met with today understands the urgency of getting this right. And I appreciate that each of them took responsibility for the shortfalls within their own agencies. 我也知道，今天与我见面的团队的每一位成员都理解把这件事做好的紧迫性。我也赞赏他们每一个人都为自己机构内部的失职承担了责任。
Immediately after the attack, I ordered concrete steps to protect the American people: new screening and security for all flights, domestic and international; more explosive detection teams at airports; more air marshals on flights; and deepening cooperation with international partners. 袭击发生后，我立即下令采取具体措施保护美国人民：对所有国内和国际航班实施新的安检和安保措施；在机场增派更多爆炸物探测小组；在航班上增加更多空中警力；并深化与国际合作伙伴的合作。
In recent days, we've taken additional steps to improve security. Counterterrorism officials have reviewed and updated our terrorist watch list system, including adding more individuals to the "no fly" list. And while our review has found that our watch-listing system is not broken, the failure to add Abdulmutallab to the "no fly" list shows that this system needs to be strengthened. 近日来，我们采取了额外措施以加强安全。反恐官员已经审查并更新了我们的恐怖分子观察名单制度，包括将更多人员列入"禁飞名单"。虽然我们的审查发现观察名单制度并未失灵，但未能将阿卜杜勒穆塔拉布列入"禁飞名单"这一事实表明，该制度需要进一步加强。
The State Department is now requiring embassies and consulates to include current visa information in their warning on individuals with terrorist or suspected terrorist connections. As of yesterday, the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, is requiring enhanced screening for passengers flying into the United States from, or flying through, nations on our list of state sponsors of terrorism, or other countries of interest. 国务院现在要求各使领馆在针对与恐怖分子或疑似恐怖分子有联系的人员发出的警告中，附上当前的签证信息。自昨日起，运输安全管理局（即TSA）要求对从我国认定的恐怖主义国家支持者名单上的国家、或其他受关注国家飞往美国或经停上述国家飞往美国的旅客实施加强的安检。
And in the days ahead, I will announce further steps to disrupt attacks, including better integration of information and enhanced passenger screening for air travel. 在未来的日子里，我将宣布更多旨在挫败袭击的举措，包括更好地整合信息以及加强航空旅客安检。
Finally, some have suggested that the events on Christmas Day should cause us to revisit the decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. So let me be clear. It was always our intent to transfer detainees to other countries only under conditions that provide assurances that our security is being protected. 最后，有人提出，圣诞节发生的事件应促使我们重新审视关闭关塔那摩湾监狱的决定。因此，让我明确表示。我们一贯的意图是，只有在能够确保我们的安全得到保障的条件下，才会将囚犯转移到其他国家。
With respect to Yemen in particular, there's an ongoing security situation which we have been confronting for some time, along with our Yemeni partner. Given the unsettled situation, I've spoken to the Attorney General and we've agreed that we will not be transferring additional detainees back to Yemen at this time. 特别是就也门而言，那里存在持续的安全局势，我们与也门伙伴一道应对这一局势已有相当时间。鉴于局势不稳，我已经与司法部长交谈过，我们一致同意目前不会将更多囚犯遣返至也门。
But make no mistake: We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al Qaeda. In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. And, as I've always said, we will do so -- we will close the prison in a manner that keeps the American people safe and secure. 但不要误解：我们将关闭关塔那摩监狱，它已损害了我们的国家安全利益，并成为基地组织极大的招募工具。事实上，这正是阿拉伯半岛基地组织成立的明确理由之一。而且，正如我一直所说，我们将这样做——我们将以保障美国人民安全的方式关闭该监狱。
Our reviews -- and the steps that we've taken and will continue to take -- go to the heart of the kind of intelligence and homeland security we need in the 21st century. Just as al Qaeda and its allies are constantly evolving and adapting their efforts to strike us, we have to constantly adapt and evolve to defeat them, because as we saw on Christmas, the margin for error is slim and the consequences of failure can be catastrophic. 我们的审查——以及我们已经采取并将继续采取的措施——触及了我们在21世纪所需的那种情报和国土安全的核心。正如基地组织及其盟友不断演变和调整其袭击我们的手段一样，我们也必须不断调整和演变以击败他们，因为正如我们在圣诞节所见，容错的余地极小，而失败的后果可能是灾难性的。
As these violent extremists pursue new havens, we intend to target al Qaeda wherever they take root, forging new partnerships to deny them sanctuary, as we are doing currently with the government in Yemen. As our adversaries seek new recruits, we'll constantly review and rapidly update our intelligence and our institutions. As they refine our tactics, we'll enhance our defenses, including smarter screening and security at airports, and investing in the technologies that might have detected the kind of explosives used on Christmas. 当这些暴力极端分子寻找新的避风港时，我们打算在基地组织扎根的任何地方对其发动打击，建立新的伙伴关系以剥夺他们的庇护所，正如我们目前与也门政府所做的那样。当我们的敌人寻找新的招募对象时，我们将不断审查并迅速更新我们的情报和机构。当他们改进战术时，我们将加强我们的防御，包括在机场实施更智能的安检和安保措施，并投资于可能探测到圣诞节所用爆炸物的技术。
In short, we need our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement systems -- and the people in them -- to be accountable and to work as intended: collecting, sharing, integrating, analyzing, and acting on intelligence as quickly and effectively as possible to save innocent lives -- not just most of the time, but all the time. That's what the American people deserve. 简而言之，我们需要我们的情报、国土安全和执法系统——以及其中的人员——负起责任，按预期运作：尽可能快速有效地收集、共享、整合、分析并根据情报采取行动，以拯救无辜的生命——不仅在大多数时候如此，而要在所有时候都如此。这才是美国人民应得的。
As President, that's exactly what I will demand. 作为总统，这正是我将要求的。
Thank you very much. 非常感谢。
