Nyctohylophobia

The failure to prevent the 9/11 attacks has myriad causes. There was an overall decline in intelligence community funding, the warnings generally had no specific where/when/how, the vast majority of threats pointed overseas, the intelligence community requirements system was overwhelmed and ineffective, al Qaeda’s inner circle wasn’t penetrated by reliable and knowledgeable human resources, counterterrorist strategy generally declined, collaboration between intelligence agencies was poor, no one catalogued the information about the use of airplanes as weapons (and requiring additional information collection and seriously considering the probability of such attacks), counterterrorist training was extremely limited and incompetence sometimes resulted, several Arab governments refused to share intelligence, terrorist assets were not tracked down and frozen, government alerts to the public were too sporadic, FBI went case by case and not by the big picture, translation skills were inadequate, federal/state/local entities had problems sharing information, military campaigns may have been too soft, timely watchlisting was not performed, etc. These problems transcended administrations.

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