Originally Posted by halls120

Politics wasn't the reason intelligence wasn't shared before 9/11. It was because we had built walls between those in the intelligence community, and those in the law enforcement community, and those walls were the product of forty-plus years of the cold war era.

With regard to security, I don't see this administration doing anything to roll back anything their predecessors did. If anything, it looks like they are going to push the envelope further out. So far, at least.