I think we can trace our current intelligence shortfall back to the day rogue agents eliminated Robert Redford's book-reading section in "Three Days of the Condor".
"Secrecy, compartmentation and overclassification today are used to conceal malfeasance, systemic corruption and intelligence shortfalls," argues John Maguire, a career CIA operations officer who retired several years ago.
"I'm certain that we are going to find some significant intelligence shortfalls that contributed to this tragedy on Tuesday," Senator Graham said.
Was it an intelligence failure?
It mingles with a shortfall of intelligence, an excess of hair and a flickering sweetness: Sam Malone, the bartender in "Cheers," whom he played for more than a decade, until the show's finale in 1993.
Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, American intelligence agencies have doubled or even tripled the number of Arabic and Persian linguists on their payrolls, but "much remains to be done" to address a remaining shortfall, a senior intelligence official has told Congress.
Better to be surprised by a windfall than a shortfall.
The report also highlighted a 26% shortfall in the number of intelligence analysts in the face of the increasing risk of cyber-attacks.
The first is an investment shortfall.
That leaves an $11.3 billion shortfall.
But the IPPR think-tank estimates an £8bn shortfall.
