[dirtboy]

Do you have reservations about the 9/11 Commission findings that we failed to "connect the dots" prior to 9/11?

Yes, I do. And as I have said repeatedly on this thread, the government had the dots and didn't connect them. And the answer is not to get petabytes more of dots, but do a better job with the dots you already have.

[oceanview]

the reason able danger was buried, was because to run it - DoD used data sources they "shouldn't have had", so they had to bury it.

[Political Junkie Too]

And as I have said repeatedly on this thread, the government had the dots and didn't connect them. And the answer is not to get petabytes more of dots, but do a better job with the dots you already have.

There is a saying among war historians that the losers of wars were fighting the prior war, and the winners were fighting the new war. In other words, the losers were using the old, established tactics of the past while the winners were innovating.

I believe that "doing a better job with the dots you already have" is fighting with the tactics of the prior war. We need to be innovative with fighting this new war, especially since the enemy is a new kind of enemy.

-PJ