“In May 2003, the Bush administration launched the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, an independent body with analysts from more than a dozen agencies, including the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service. That Center is supposed to share all potentially useful intelligence and collate it into succinct daily reports for the White House and Pentagon, among others.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, Page xvi