What's the use? Blatantly false statements abound and they will be believed because nobody knows and they don't want to know. Look up the Presidential Directives (PPD/PRD) and find out what is really going on.
I get frustrated and depressed blowing these things apart.
Agent: FBI Could Have Prevented 9-11
Wright listed several major failures of the FBI. They included lack of high-quality managers and modern computer technology, failure to modernize investigative objectives to deal with the new terrorist threat, too many investigative violations, incompetent managers not held accountable for their mistakes, an internal affairs unit that was "bias[ed] and unfair” to whistle-blowers and others, criminal conflicts that have "contributed to the preventable deaths of American citizens," and FBI duplication of the investigative jurisdictions of other federal law enforcement agencies such as the DEA and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Cry real big crocodile tears for us...
It's all about what is lacking, never what is in abundance! Millions and billions of dollars in gadgetry and there just isn't enough. Evidence from just one article has already been shown what is available, and that in high-tech abundance.
I feel I know what is lacking and it isn't what is quoted above.
On 9 May 2001, President George W. Bush signed National Security Presidential Directive 5, ordering "a comprehensive review of the nation's intelligence capabilities." DCI George J. Tenet is directed "to determine how the CIA and a dozen sister agencies are coping with rapid technological change and difficult new targets.... Tenet must name an internal panel of intelligence officials and an external panel from the private sector to conduct the review and make recommendations. The directive calls for Tenet to consult with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice in naming the external team."
Loeb, Vernon. "CIA Panel May Lack Voice for Change." Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2001, A13.
The eight-member panel of experts selected by DCI George J. Tenet to conduct a "comprehensive review" of U.S. intelligence is headed by retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft and includes retired Adm. David Jeremiah; former CIA deputy director Richard Kerr; former undersecretary of state Stapleton Roy; former deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick; John Foster, a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1973 to 1990; Jeong Kim, an information technology expert who serves on the board of In-Q-Tel; and William Schneider, a businessman who heads the Defense Science Board.
Some questions exist as to whether the panel includes "voices for radical change." According to Robert D. Steele, who heads Open Source Solutions: "There isn't a single iconoclast in the group." However, Jack Devine, a former top CIA operations official, disagrees, noting that "the Scowcroft panel is more than a rubber stamp for the status quo, particularly with people such as Kerr and Jeremiah on board."