Lessons learned from the two other biggest security and intelligence lapses in U.S. history sparked enormous shakeups. Why hadn’t the same happened with the Secret Service?
Separated by 60 years, both failures shared striking similarities. Clues to both were available in the raw intelligence gathered by the U.S. but they slipped through the gaps of multi-agency cooperation, poorly focused resources and a failure of imagination. The failings were profound but at least they were understandable—the security failure on Saturday that allowed
Studying satellite images of the rural site, it is immediately clear that there are only a handful of high-risk sniper platforms within range of Trump’s stage. This should have been a relatively simple location to secure. The report said Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush had not been “well-served” by the CIA and FBI. A separate special report by the Office of the Inspector General also dated 2004 found that the FBI was failing to properly analyze and share the intelligence it was gathering with the rest of the intel community. For example, the pursuit of information relating to two of the 9/11 terrorists, Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar, was compromised by systemic failings.
The day before the attack, the Army’s Signal Intelligence Service intercepted a message from Japan to its diplomats inside the U.S. saying that they had decided months of negotiations were now over and there would be no peace with the United States. It wasn’t until the attack was underway less than 24 hours later that intel analysts realized how important that message had been.
What did the U.S. do after investigating Pearl Harbor? It set up new intelligence agencies in 1947 that were supposed to share their intel better. That included a Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council which coordinated between intelligence agencies and government departments.
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