Romney hits Obama's handling of terrorist attack

"I think almost anybody who's looked at the way the President has handled this has been very, very dismayed. His initial reaction, which was to say this was apparently an individual acting on his own -- that was wrong, that was the wrong thing for him to say.

And then, of course, he came out and attacked the intelligence community in an aggressive way, and of course, they needed a talking to -- particularly, the Secretary of Homeland Security, but that's not the sort of thing you leak to the press. The President should have stood up -- as JFK did -- and said, 'Look, this was my fault. I'm responsible. I'll do a better job', and then deal with your people one-by-one, but perhaps the biggest fault that I have is that instead of taking this would-be bomber and interrogating him so we could learn the very intelligence that our intelligence community so desperately wants to have, instead of doing that -- they decide to lawyer him up and quiet him down, so that he can't give us the information we need.

The President is more intent on having the people at the ACLU happy than he ought to be."