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Defenders of NSA Surveillance Omit Most of Mumbai Plotter's Story
[PROPUBLICA.ORG] "The failure here is the failure to connect systems," said a U.S. law enforcement official who worked on the case but is not cleared to discuss it publicly. "Everybody had information in their silos, and they didn't share across the silos. Headley in my mind is not a successful interdiction of a terrorist. It's not a great example of how the system should work."If I'm not mistaken, and I'm not, the intel failures that led to 9-11 were attributed to the failure to connect systems. That was why they established the office of the Director of National Intelligence, adding another layer of bureaucracy above the Director of Central Intelligence, who had previously been responsible for coordinating intel efforts. Clapper, the current DNI's Office of the DNI now has General Counsel, civil liberties, public affairs, Inspector General, Equal Employment Opportunity, and legislative affairs functions. I don't know if it has any actual intel functions. My guess is that there's somebody showing up for work and going to an office with that kind of label, drinking coffee and hanging out with the janitorial staff, who occupy the same bureaucratic social rung. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-13 |
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