The conventional wisdom for the past month or two has been that we failed to stop terrorists from attacking us on September 11, 2001 because of structural problems with our intelligence and law enforcement apparatus. That’s what the 9/11 Commission told us (or at least, recommended that we change). Now the smart people seem to be saying that the problem wasn’t the rules, or the bureaucracy, but rather the people involved. That makes the most sense to me.
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The conventional wisdom for the past month or two has been that we failed to stop terrorists from attacking us on September 11, 2001 because of structural problems with our intelligence and law enforcement apparatus. That’s what the 9/11 Commission told us (or at least, recommended that we change). Now the smart people seem to be saying that the problem wasn’t the rules, or the bureaucracy, but rather the people involved. That makes the most sense to me.
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