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| 2013-06-13 |
[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 |
| #6 I don't know if it has any actual intel functions It doesn't and deliberately wasn't set up to. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-06-13 11:23 |
| #5 Yes. Governments and their agendas come and go. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-06-13 11:01 |
| #4 It is entirely appropriate to love one's country and at the same time, despise one's government. - Cannot recall the author. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-06-13 10:19 |
| #3 In the Constitution, one can see a distrust of government by the Founding Fathers. It should not be a surprise to Washington that a lingering distrust still exists--it is healthy. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-06-13 10:01 |
| #2 The last post was by me. I cleaned out my cookies to get rid of accumulated stuff. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-06-13 09:49 |
| #1 Homeland Security was ostensibly created to integrate the silos in individual agencies. There was supposed to be a sharing of intel and thus more efficiency. It was thought that terrorists would be headed off before they did anything. However, things have happened anyway. We got more bureaucracy and inefficiency. In light of recent scandals and revelations. Inefficiency may be a prophylaxis for people in flyover land, that is, protection of us from the current crop of apparatchiks. |
| Posted by: Grock Snomoter1534 2013-06-13 09:48 |