Op-Ed Contributors - How 12/25 Was Like 9/11 - NYTimes.com
This is a nice article that compares 9/11 to 12/25. Two underlying administrative issues behind the attacks on 9/11 was the inability to coordinate information. The CIA, FBI, and NSA had pieces to the puzzle, but refused to share. Another issue was the inability of the state to gather intelligence. Administrative agencies didn't have the means to gather what was needed. Well, we were supposed to fix both of those problems. It seemed that we addressed the second one, even though many argue that we sacrificed our civil liberties for security. We gather billions of pieces of intelligence daily. The problem is how to coordinate and conflate those pieces of data in order to stop attacks. As the Christmas bomber showed, we clearly haven't figured out how to connect the dots.
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