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.
It's still not shared. The "need to share" as I often heard while working for the government was lip service. Sounded good, but when it came to actually wanting to share information ... good luck. Policy dug in its heals and that information wasn't going anywhere. There were times I was flat out told it'd be easier to share information with other non-US agencies than it would be to share with another USG entity. Go figure.
Stovepiping is alive and well. It's pretty much going to take a cultural nuke to end it.