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To do that housecleaning will require private sector intervention and the realization that the way the HR is designed for such a body is badly flawed.They make mistakes because they get the wrong types of people doing work ill suited for their skills, and it should be apparent that to do such pattern recognition and interpretation is handled by such a small subset of the general populace that the FBI and CIA have to change their recruitment standards.

This type of counter-terrorism work has to be handled by independent thinking, intuitive types that make connections to events that few can do.The gov't is not the best place to find such people, though some may exist in certain areas, the private sector and even parts of academia could yield better results.Find better people, leave them alone to brainstorm and give them the resources they need, and there is a good chance that there will be fewer cock- ups in the future.Most cannot connect dots on their own, and its past time that those in charge of intelligence recognize such flaws in how the human resources factor fails the FBI and CIA in one of its primary functions.

Respectfully, I disagree.

There is not a huge pool of individuals suited to conduct intelligence analysis.The best source of candidates is derived from proven prior related fields.It is not solely a matter of "think tank" minds.

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