July 27, 2017
Connect the Dots to Stop Terror Plots
Why didn’t intelligence agencies prevent 9/11? According to the 9/11 Commission, before the attacks, information from intelligence agencies “often failed to make its way to criminal investigators” at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal.
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