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Intelligence Changes Still Thwarted By Lack Of Information Sharing

An AP newswire article written by Lara Jakes Jordan in InformationWeek cites interagency confusion and mistakes by the FBI as key culprits:

Overlapping responsibilities among U.S. intelligence agencies could lead to failures in assessing terror threats, experts said Monday in examining changes at the CIA and FBI since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Part of the problem stems from the continued lack of a reliable information-sharing system within the intelligence community, according to panelists led by a member of the 9/11 Commission that investigated missteps leading to the attacks.

"There's a real vulnerability," former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh said during the two-hour discussion--the first of eight panels hosted this summer by the commission.

posted by Fergie @ 6/07/2005 10:07:00 AM