Posted by
EWRoss on Monday, January 11, 2010 8:00:00 AM
From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to
Christmas-Day 2009, the term most often heard in the aftermath of attacks on
the United States
and our interests abroad that we were unprepared for is 'intelligence failure.'
Time and again we discover that it's not what we couldn't know but what we
should have known that would have prevented catastrophe. And it’s become an
American tradition in the wake of these events to focus on the shortcomings of
organizations and agencies in government more than the people who run them.
Intelligence failures, or as President Obama calls them, 'systemic failures,'
are almost always leadership failures.
Read the full column at http://ewross.com/Intelligence_Failure.htm