What Our Spies Can Learn From Toyota
21st February 2010
We have 16 separate intelligence agencies. No wonder people aren’t connecting the dots.
The national intelligence apparatus of the U.S. has fewer employees than GM had in its prime, yet it consists officially of 16 separate agencies, and unofficially of more than 20. Each of these agencies is protected by strong political and bureaucratic constituencies, so that after each intelligence failure everything continues pretty much the same and usually with the same people in charge.