{"id":1267,"date":"2013-05-04T14:09:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T19:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2013-05-04T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T19:10:10","slug":"why-fbi-and-cia-didnt-connect-the-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Why FBI and CIA didn&#8217;t connect the dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rather than thinking of intelligence as a simple connect-the-dots picture, think of it as a million unnumbered pictures superimposed on top of each other. Or a random-dot stereogram. Is it a sailboat, a puppy, two guys with pressure-cooker bombs or just an unintelligible mess of dots? You try to figure it out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/02\/opinion\/schneier-boston-bombing\/index.html\">Opinion: Why FBI and CIA didn&#8217;t connect the dots &#8211; CNN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16\">Before we start blaming agencies for failing to stop the Boston bombers, and before we push &#8220;intelligence reforms&#8221; that will shred civil liberties without making us any safer, we need to stop seeing the past as a bunch of obvious dots that need connecting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than thinking of intelligence as a simple connect-the-dots picture, think of it as a million unnumbered pictures superimposed on top of each other. Or a random-dot stereogram. Is it a sailboat, a puppy, two guys with pressure-cooker bombs or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1267\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[137,136],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-data-analytics","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}