“Failing to Connect the Dots”
With regard to the recent botched terrorist attack, President Obama mentioned that the problem was not that we didn’t have the intelligence, but a failure to understand the intelligence, a failure to connect the dots. I wanted to make several comments about that. When the President says that we had the information that could have stopped the terrorist, he makes it sound like the system failed badly. Indeed, many pundits and politicians I’ve heard reacted with alarm. One writer called for Janet Napolitano’s head. I want to make several comments about this: Read more »
