Which of the Following Contributed to the Intelligence Community's Failure

question 22

Multiple Choice

Which of the following contributed to the intelligence community's failure to prevent the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001?

• A)The Office of the Director of National Intelligence failed to coordinate the movement of information within the intelligence community.
• B)Each intelligence agency was created to collect unique information for a unique client,so the agencies rarely shared information.
• C)The agencies that had primary responsibility for gathering intelligence information were not the same ones that had primary responsibility for acting upon that information.
• D)The intelligence agencies had been ordered by the president to work with one another only during times of national crisis so as to keep classified information from getting into too many different hands.

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