Good afternoon, everybody. The immediate reviews that I ordered after the failed Christmas terrorist attack are now complete. I was just briefed on the findings and recommendations for reform, and I believe it's important that the American people understand the new steps that we're taking to prevent attacks and keep our country safe. 大家下午好。我在圣诞节未遂恐怖袭击事件后下令进行的紧急审查现已完成。我刚刚听取了审查结果和改革建议的汇报，我认为，让美国人民了解我们正在采取的防止袭击、保卫国家安全的新举措非常重要。
This afternoon, my Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Advisor, John Brennan, will discuss his review into our terrorist watchlist system -- how our government failed to connect the dots in a way that would have prevented a known terrorist from boarding a plane for America, and the steps we're going to take to prevent that from happening again. 今天下午，我的反恐与国土安全顾问约翰·布伦南将讨论他对恐怖分子观察名单系统的审查——我们的政府为何未能将各条线索串联起来，从而阻止一名已知恐怖分子登上飞往美国的航班，以及我们将采取什么步骤防止此类事件再次发生。
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will discuss her review of aviation screening, technology and procedures -- how that terrorist boarded a plane with explosives that could have killed nearly 300 innocent people, and how we'll strengthen aviation security going forward. 国土安全部长珍妮特·纳波利塔诺将讨论她对航空筛查、技术和程序的审查——那名恐怖分子如何携带可能夺去近300名无辜者生命的爆炸物登上飞机，以及我们将如何加强未来的航空安全。
So today I want to just briefly summarize their conclusions and the steps that I've ordered to address them. 因此今天，我想简要概述他们的结论以及我已下令采取的应对措施。
In our ever-changing world, America's first line of defense is timely, accurate intelligence that is shared, integrated, analyzed, and acted upon quickly and effectively. That's what the intelligence reforms after the 9/11 attacks largely achieved. That's what our intelligence community does every day. But, unfortunately, that's not what happened in the lead-up to Christmas Day. It's now clear that shortcomings occurred in three broad and compounding ways. 在这个瞬息万变的世界里，美国的第一道防线是及时、准确的情报——能够被共享、整合、分析并迅速有效地采取行动。这正是9·11袭击后的情报改革大体上取得的成果。这正是我们的情报部门每天都在做的工作。然而遗憾的是，在圣诞节前夕，情况并非如此。如今已清楚，失误以三种广泛且相互叠加的方式发生。
First, although our intelligence community had learned a great deal about the al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen -- called al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- that we knew that they sought to strike the United States and that they were recruiting operatives to do so -- the intelligence community did not aggressively follow up on and prioritize particular streams of intelligence related to a possible attack against the homeland. 第一，虽然我们的情报部门已经掌握了大量关于也门基地组织分支——即阿拉伯半岛基地组织——的情报，知道他们企图袭击美国，并正在招募人员实施这一行动，但情报部门并未积极追踪并优先处理与可能针对本土的袭击有关的特定情报线索。
Second, this contributed to a larger failure of analysis -- a failure to connect the dots of intelligence that existed across our intelligence community and which, together, could have revealed that Abdulmutallab was planning an attack. 第二，这进而导致更大的分析失误——未能将情报部门各机构中已有的情报线索串联起来，而这些线索综合起来本可揭示穆塔拉布正在策划一起袭击。
Third, this, in turn, fed into shortcomings in the watch-listing system which resulted in this person not being placed on the "no fly" list, thereby allowing him to board that plane in Amsterdam for Detroit. 第三，这又进而导致观察名单系统出现失误，致使此人未被列入"禁飞"名单，从而让他得以在阿姆斯特丹登上飞往底特律的航班。
In sum, the U.S. government had the information -- scattered throughout the system -- to potentially uncover this plot and disrupt the attack. Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence, this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had. 总而言之，美国政府掌握着相关情报——散落在系统各处——本可能揭露这一阴谋并阻止这次袭击。这并非情报收集或共享的失败，而是未能将我们已有的情报串联起来并加以理解。
That's why we took swift action in the immediate days following Christmas, including reviewing and updating the terrorist watchlist system and adding more individuals to the "no fly" list, and directing our embassies and consulates to include current visa information in their warnings of individuals with terrorist or suspected terrorist ties. 正因如此，我们在圣诞节后的最初几天里迅速采取行动，包括审查和更新恐怖分子观察名单系统，将更多人员列入"禁飞"名单，并指示我国驻外使领馆在涉及有恐怖或涉嫌恐怖联系人员的预警中加入其当前签证信息。
Today, I'm directing a series of additional corrective steps across multiple agencies. Broadly speaking, they fall into four areas. 今天，我下令在多个机构采取一系列额外的整改措施。概括而言，它们分为四个方面。
First, I'm directing that our intelligence community immediately begin assigning specific responsibility for investigating all leads on high-priority threats so that these leads are pursued and acted upon aggressively -- not just most of the time, but all of the time. We must follow the leads that we get. And we must pursue them until plots are disrupted. And that mean assigning clear lines of responsibility. 第一，我指示情报部门立即开始为追查所有高优先级威胁线索指定具体责任人，确保这些线索得到积极追查和处置——不是在大多数情况下，而是在所有情况下。我们必须追踪我们获得的每一条线索。我们必须追查到底，直到阴谋被粉碎。这就意味着要明确划分责任。
Second, I'm directing that intelligence reports, especially those involving potential threats to the United States, be distributed more rapidly and more widely. We can't sit on information that could protect the American people. 第二，我指示情报报告，特别是涉及对美国潜在威胁的报告，要更迅速、更广泛地分发。我们不能坐视可能保护美国人民的信息于不顾。
Third, I'm directing that we strengthen the analytical process, how our analysis -- how our analysts process and integrate the intelligence that they receive. My Director of National Intelligence, Denny Blair, will take the lead in improving our day-to-day efforts. My Intelligence Advisory Board will examine the longer-term challenge of sifting through vast universes of intelligence and data in our Information Age. 第三，我指示我们加强分析流程，即我们的分析——我们的分析师如何处理和整合所接收到的情报。我的国家情报总监丹尼·布莱尔将牵头改进我们的日常工作。我的情报顾问委员会将研究信息时代中从海量情报和数据中筛选有用信息的长期挑战。
And finally, I'm ordering an immediate effort to strengthen the criteria used to add individuals to our terrorist watchlists, especially the "no fly" list. We must do better in keeping dangerous people off airplanes, while still facilitating air travel. 最后，我下令立即着手强化将个人列入恐怖分子观察名单——尤其是"禁飞"名单——的标准。我们必须更好地阻止危险人员登上飞机，同时仍要便利航空旅行。
So taken together, these reforms will improve the intelligence community's ability to collect, share, integrate, analyze, and act on intelligence swiftly and effectively. In short, they will help our intelligence community do its job even better and protect American lives. 因此，综合起来看，这些改革将提升情报部门迅速有效地收集、共享、整合、分析并依据情报采取行动的能力。简言之，它们将帮助我们的情报部门把工作做得更好，保护美国人的生命。
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, and borders, and through our partnerships with other nations -- to prevent terrorists from entering America. 但即便最好的情报也无法事先识别每一个企图伤害我们的人。因此，我们需要在机场、港口和边境，以及通过与其他国家的伙伴关系，依靠安保措施阻止恐怖分子进入美国。
At the Amsterdam airport, Abdulmutallab was subjected to the same screening as other passengers. He was required to show his documents -- including a valid U.S. visa. His carry-on bag was X-rayed. He passed through a metal detector. But a metal detector can't detect the kind of explosives that were sewn into his clothes. 在阿姆斯特丹机场，穆塔拉布接受了与其他乘客相同的安检。他被要求出示证件——包括有效的美国签证。他的随身行李通过了X光检查。他通过了金属探测器。但金属探测器无法检测出缝在他衣服里的那种爆炸物。
As Secretary Napolitano will explain, the screening technologies that might have detected these explosives are in use at the Amsterdam airport, but not at the specific checkpoints that he passed through. Indeed, most airports in the world -- and in the United States -- do not yet have these technologies. Now, there's no silver bullet to securing the thousands of flights into America each day, domestic and international. 正如纳波利塔诺部长将说明的那样，本可能检测出这些爆炸物的安检技术在阿姆斯特丹机场已投入使用，但并不在他经过的特定安检口。事实上，世界上大多数机场——包括美国本土——尚未配备这些技术。如今，要保障每天飞往美国的数千架次国内和国际航班的安全，并没有万全之策。
It will require significant investments in many areas. And that's why, even before the Christmas attack, we increased investments in homeland security and aviation security. This includes an additional one billion dollars in new systems and technologies that we need to protect our airports -- more baggage screening, more passenger screening and more advanced explosive detection capabilities, including those that can improve our ability to detect the kind of explosive used on Christmas. These are major investments and they'll make our skies safer and more secure. 这需要在多个领域进行重大投资。正因如此，在圣诞节袭击发生之前，我们就已经增加了对国土安全和航空安全的投入。这包括追加10亿美元用于保护我们机场所需的新系统和技术——更多的行李筛查、更多的旅客筛查以及更先进的爆炸物检测能力，包括那些能提升我们检测圣诞节所用爆炸物类型能力的技术。这些都是重大投资，将使我们的天空更加安全。
As I announced this week, we've taken a whole range of steps to improve aviation screening and security since Christmas, including new rules for how we handle visas within the government and enhanced screening for passengers flying from, or through, certain countries. 正如我本周宣布的那样，自圣诞节以来，我们已经采取了一系列措施来改善航空筛查和安全，包括政府内部处理签证的新规，以及对来自或途经某些国家的乘客加强筛查。
And today, I'm directing that the Department of Homeland Security take additional steps, including: strengthening our international partnerships to improve aviation screening and security around the world; greater use of the advanced explosive detection technologies that we already have, including imaging technology; and working aggressively, in cooperation with the Department of Energy and our National Labs, to develop and deploy the next generation of screening technologies. 今天，我指示国土安全部采取更多措施，包括：加强我们的国际伙伴关系以改善全球航空筛查和安全；更多地使用我们已有的先进爆炸物检测技术，包括成像技术；并与能源部和国家实验室合作，积极开发和部署下一代筛查技术。
Now, there is, of course, no foolproof solution. As we develop new screening technologies and procedures, our adversaries will seek new ways to evade them, as was shown by the Christmas attack. In the never-ending race to protect our country, we have to stay one step ahead of a nimble adversary. That's what these steps are designed to do. And we will continue to work with Congress to ensure that our intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement communities have the resources they need to keep the American people safe. 当然，现在并没有万无一失的解决方案。随着我们开发新的筛查技术和程序，我们的对手也会寻找新的规避方法，圣诞节袭击就证明了这一点。在保护我们国家的无尽竞赛中，我们必须领先于敏捷的对手一步。这正是这些措施旨在实现的目标。我们将继续与国会合作，确保我们的情报、国土安全和执法部门拥有保护美国人民安全所需的资源。
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 a sustained and intensive effort of analysis and assessment, so that we leave no stone unturned in seeking better ways to protect the American people. 我下令进行这两项紧急审查，是为了让我们能够立即采取行动，保障我国安全。但在未来数周和数月里，我们将继续进行持续而密集的分析和评估工作，以便在寻求更好方式保护美国人民方面做到不遗余力。
I have repeatedly made it clear -- in public with the American people, and in private with my national security team -- that I will hold my staff, our agencies and the people in them accountable when they fail to perform their responsibilities at the highest levels. 我已反复明确表示——既对美国人民公开表态，也在私下对我的国家安全团队强调——当我的工作人员、我们的机构以及其中的人员未能按最高标准履行职责时，我将追究他们的责任。
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 failure across organizations and agencies. That's why, in addition to the corrective efforts that I've ordered, I've directed agency heads to establish internal accountability reviews, and directed my national security staff to monitor their efforts. 目前在审查过程的这一阶段，看来这起事件并非某个个人或组织的过失，而是各组织和机构之间的系统性失误。正因如此，除了我已下令的整改工作之外，我还指示各机构负责人建立内部问责审查，并指示我的国家安全工作人员监督他们的工作。
We will measure progress. And John Brennan will report back to me within 30 days and on a regular basis after that. All of these agencies -- and their leaders -- are responsible for implementing these reforms. And all will be held accountable if they don't. 我们将衡量进展。约翰·布伦南将在30天内向我汇报，此后将定期汇报。所有这些机构——以及它们的领导人——都有责任实施这些改革。如果不履行，所有人都将被追究责任。
Moreover, I am less interested in passing out blame than I am in learning from and correcting these mistakes to make us safer. For ultimately, the buck stops with me. As President, I have a solemn responsibility to protect our nation and our people. And when the system fails, it is my responsibility. 此外，相比于追究责任，我更关心的是从这些错误中吸取教训并加以纠正，以使我们更安全。归根结底，责任在我这里。作为总统，我有庄严的责任保护我们的国家和人民。当系统失灵时，那是我的责任。
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 while passions and politics can often obscure the hard work before us, let's be clear about what this moment demands. We are at war. We are at war against al Qaeda, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again. And we will do whatever it takes to defeat them. 在过去两周里，我们再次被提醒：在保护国家免受一心要毁灭我们的敌人的侵害方面，我们面临着怎样的挑战。尽管激情和政治常常会遮蔽我们面前的艰巨工作，但让我们清楚这一时刻需要什么。我们正在交战。我们正在与基地组织交战——这是一个充满暴力和仇恨的庞大网络，它在9·11袭击了我们，杀害了近3000名无辜者，并正在密谋再次袭击我们。我们将不惜一切代价击败他们。
And we've made progress. Al Qaeda's leadership is hunkered down. We have worked closely with partners, including Yemen, to inflict major blows against al Qaeda leaders. And we have disrupted plots at home and abroad, and saved American lives. 我们也取得了进展。基地组织的领导层已龟缩一隅。我们与包括也门在内的伙伴密切合作，对基地组织领导人造成重大打击。我们还在国内外粉碎了多起阴谋，挽救了美国人的生命。
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 terrorist affiliations not just in the Middle East, but in Africa and other places, to do their bidding. 我们也知道，绝大多数穆斯林都排斥基地组织。但很明显，基地组织越来越多地试图招募没有已知恐怖背景的个人，不仅在中东，也在非洲和其他地方，为他们效力。
That's why I've directed my national security team to develop a strategy that addresses the unique challenges posed by lone recruits. And that's why we must communicate clearly to Muslims around the world that al Qaeda offers nothing except a bankrupt vision of misery and death -- including the murder of fellow Muslims -- while the United States stands with those who seek justice and progress. 正因如此，我已指示我的国家安全团队制定一项战略，应对单独招募人员带来的独特挑战。也正因如此，我们必须向全世界的穆斯林明确传达：基地组织除了提供一种充满苦难和死亡的破产愿景之外，别无他物——包括杀害穆斯林同胞——而美国则与那些追求正义和进步的人站在一起。
To advance that progress, we've sought new beginnings with Muslim communities around the world, one in which we engage on the basis of mutual interest and mutual respect, and work together to fulfill the aspirations that all people share -- to get an education, to work with dignity, to live in peace and security. That's what America believes in. That's the vision that is far more powerful than the hatred of these violent extremists. 为了推进这一进展，我们寻求与全世界穆斯林社区建立新的开端，在相互利益和相互尊重的基础上进行接触，共同努力实现全人类共同的愿望——接受教育、有尊严地工作、在和平与安全中生活。这就是美国的信念。这一愿景远比这些暴力极端分子的仇恨更加强大。
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 we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. That is exactly what our adversaries want, and so long as I am President, we will never hand them that victory. We will define the character of our country, not some band of small men intent on killing innocent men, women and children. 在国内，我们将加强防御，但我们不会屈服于围困心态，从而牺牲我们作为美国人所珍视的开放社会、自由和价值观，因为伟大而自豪的国家不会龟缩在怀疑和不信任的高墙之后。这恰恰是我们的对手所希望的，只要我担任总统，我们就绝不会让他们获得那种胜利。我们将定义我国的品格，而不是让一小撮妄图杀害无辜男女老幼的人来定义。
And in this cause, every one of us -- every American, every elected official -- can do our part. Instead of giving into cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that defines us as a people. For now is not a time for partisanship, it's a time for citizenship -- a time to come together and work together with the seriousness of purpose that our national security demands. 在这一事业中，我们每一个人——每一个美国人、每一位民选官员——都可以尽自己的一份力量。与其陷入犬儒主义和分裂，不如以定义我们这个民族的自信、乐观和团结向前迈进。因为现在不是党派之争的时候，而是公民责任的时候——是时候团结起来，以国家安全所需的严肃态度共同努力了。
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 and pass it -- safer and stronger -- to the next generation. 这就是面对暴力极端主义时保持强大的意义所在。这就是我们在这场斗争中获胜的方式。这就是我们将如何保护我们的国家，并将其——更安全、更强大地——传给下一代。
Thanks very much. 非常感谢。