US President Barack Obama reacts during a statement at the Marine Base in Kaneohe, Hawaii, on December 29, 2009. Obama said that the US intelligence network had suffered a “systemic failure” ahead of the thwarted Christmas Day airliner attack and vowed to quickly fix the problems. Obama said errors had emerged in the process of collecting and sharing intelligence on extremists and in the homeland security system which could have prevented the attack on a packed Northwest jet heading into Detroit.AFP PHOTO/Jewel SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)