Failures

A Senate investigation into the botched Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines jet found 14 intelligence failures that prevented the government from stopping alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before he boarded the Detroit-bound flight in Amsterdam. No U.S. government agency sees itself as responsible for tracking and identifying terrorism threats, and information-sharing technology among intelligence agencies "is not adequate," according to a Senate intelligence committee report released Tuesday.

8 years after 9/11 the US government still does not have a streamlined, efficient intelligence service. Billions of dollars have been spent on personnel, hardware and systems, two military wars are being fought, and different bureaucracies within the federal government still will not cooperate with one another to defend the Homeland?