<blockquote>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.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/02/opinion/schneier-boston-bombing/index.html">Opinion: Why FBI and CIA didn't connect the dots - CNN.com</a>.
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<p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16">Before we start blaming agencies for failing to stop the Boston bombers, and before we push "intelligence reforms" 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>
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