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The buck stops with President Obama when it comes to the dual scandals dogging the Secret Service and the General Services Administration (GSA) this month, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Sunday.

Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over both agencies, said the president should be held "accountable" in the aftermath of the incidents, even as it's "unfair" to hold him directly "responsible." 

"The responsibility for the abuse of authority at the Secret Service and the GSA really is the employees who did it and their supervisors," Lieberman told "Fox News Sunday." 

"But," he added, "the buck stops at the president's desk. He is the leader of our government. He now has to be acting with kind of relentless determination to find out exactly what happened and to make sure that people who work for him at the Secret Service and GSA and everywhere else in the government don't let anyt! hing like this happen again."

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