Citing the failures of the FBI to stop the events of 9/11, FBI Special Agent in the bin Laden squad Jack Cloonan said, in an interview with author Peter Lance on May 4, 2006: ” ‘If you want to do something serious about counterterrorism,’ he said, ‘if you have any influence on Congress, tell them to take it away from the FBI. Bottom line. …the culture is such that we just don’t do it well. Yes, we’ve enjoyed some successes in the criminal process, but we’re horrible at predictive analysis. The director, I suppose, and others are trying to recast the Bureau as a domestic intelligence agency. [But] there is such a problem with leadership, and has been for years.’ ”
– Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Pages 467-468