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Article: Intelligence reform.(intelligence agencies)
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Not long ago, during one of the many terrorism alerts we have endured in Washington, it was made clear that even on matters related to the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland, our intelligence agencies still refuse to share information. Two important intelligence agencies had different assessments concerning the seriousness of a particular terrorist threat. These differing assessments came about not because of different tradecraft or aggressive alternative analysis, but because one of the agencies did not have access to all the relevant information concerning that threat.
Unfortunately, this situation is not unique. The examples sound like this: Two ...