Obama announces security overhaul over Detroit plot

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Barack Obama

US President Barack Obama has announced changes to US intelligence gathering and sharing, to prevent a recurrence of the Christmas Day plane bomb plot, reports BBC.
In a national address, he said the terror watch list would be boosted and security risk data better distributed.
Hundreds more air marshals will be recruited, screening at airports improved and visa rules reviewed.
Mr Obama criticised "systemic" intelligence failings over the plot, but said: "The buck stops with me."
The US failed to "connect and understand" intelligence it had prior to the failed attack on the Detroit-bound airliner, he said.
Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is charged with the attempted murder of 290 people, and five other counts.
Mr Abdulmutallab, 23, is to make his first appearance in federal court on Friday in Detroit for a hearing to determine if he stays in custody.
Announcing the conclusions of a review of intelligence failures uncovered by a White House inquiry, President Obama said the US government "had the information scattered throughout the system to potentially uncover this plot and disrupt the attack"
Mr Abdulmutallab's name was on a US database of about 550,000 suspected terrorists.
However, it was not on a list that would have subjected him to additional security screening or kept him from boarding the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
"Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence, this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had," President Obama said.