“September 11 [2001] was the culmination of a long trail of American intelligence failures both at home and abroad–an almost bewildering array of mistakes, missteps, and missed opportunities caused by warring governmental cultures, bureaucratic incompetence and neglect, lack of imagination, and, perhaps, most tragic of all, a failure of leadership at the highest levels of government.”
– Bob Graham with Jeff Nussbaum, Intelligence Matters, Page xxiv