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| Review of Jet Bomb Plot Shows More Missed Clues |
| 2010-01-18 |
| The overhaul of America's intelligence apparatus in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks was intended to break information logjams and ensure that spy agencies traded secrets with one another. It established redundant layers of terrorism analysts to ensure that disparate clues to the next attack would not be ignored or overlooked. But in the weeks before Christmas, the flaws in the structure were laid bare. No single person or unit was in charge of running down every high-priority tip. At the National Counterterrorism Center just outside Washington, where specialists can draw on streams of information from more than 80 databases across the government, two teams of intelligence analysts worked on different parts of the same problem. Yet they never collaborated to piece together clues about the Christmas Day attack that were coming in. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 without credible penalty for failure, or definitive reward for success, individuals in the system will never 'connect the dots' |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-01-18 23:35 |