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9/11 Intelligence Failures

Intelligence failures preceding the 9/11 attacks and subsequent reforms

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Jan 13, 2026
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How did the Bush administration's policies and intelligence failures contribute to vulnerabilities before 9/11?

The Bush administration’s policies and the wider U.S. intelligence apparatus combined to produce avoidable vulnerabilities before 9/11 through a mix of missed warnings, weak information-sharing, shift...

Jan 27, 2026

How did the 9/11 Commission Report address intelligence failures?

Commission cast the that preceded the attacks as systemic—rooted in failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management—and concluded that pieces of critical information existed but were not...