US agency fiefdom building, including restrictive Intel sharing before 2002, and in-fighting is already well established. Involvement of Saudi Arabian officials with 9/11 was also an open-secret, presumed to be the redacted portion of the 9/11 commission. Where it's already uncontroversial that US inefficiency caused us to overlook actionable intelligence, this just adds accusations of active incompetence.
Extraordinary claims and all that.
US agency fiefdom building, including restrictive Intel sharing before 2002, and in-fighting is already well established. Involvement of Saudi Arabian officials with 9/11 was also an open-secret, presumed to be the redacted portion of the 9/11 commission. Where it's already uncontroversial that US inefficiency caused us to overlook actionable intelligence, this just adds accusations of active incompetence.