I have been watching the public statements from our leadership, media reports, the blogosphere, and emails galore related to the failed December 25th, 2009 terrorist attempt.
In my opinion, this recent intelligence failure has more to do with a lack of imagination than anything else. I am not talking about the imagination of the intelligence analysts – they have been begging for help, instead they face endlessly deep alert queues where the top item is clearly not the most important of the day.