Police investigators and intelligence collectors often do not share common goals: investigators aim at prosecuting an offender, whereas intelligence officers hoard intelligence until they can wipe out whole terrorist networks.
Nor is the recent criminal investigation into a National Security Agency contractor accused of hoarding highly classified intelligence data.
Intelligence hoarding presented one set of problems, but pouring it into a common ocean, Meyerrose realized soon after moving into his office, is not the answer either.
The central question is where the public will place responsibility if excessive information-hoarding within the intelligence and law enforcement communities left the nation's guard down as Al Qaeda terrorists trained and prepared for their attack.
"Intelligence agencies like hoarding secrets," Bambenek said.
The problem was the tendency of intelligence agencies to hoard information, as well as the cognitive difficulty of anticipating a spectacular and unprecedented attack.
It highlighted inept border officials who allowed one of his wives to pass into Iran, inept municipal officials who failed to spot the unusual construction at his house, intelligence officials who hoarded information, and senior police officials who it deemed guilty of a "grave dereliction of duty".
But, given increasing concerns about the hoarding of zero-day vulnerabilities by intelligence agencies and frequent legal challenges to government hacking, it might be ideal to keep information about how to hack self-driving vehicles secret from the government.
But, given increasing concerns about the hoarding of zero-day vulnerabilities by intelligence agencies and frequent legal challenges to government hacking, it might be ideal to keep information about how to hack self-driving vehicles secret from the government.
General Odierno said that raids by occupying forces appeared to be squeezing the money available to insurgents, and that intelligence indicated that funds hoarded before the war to finance a guerrilla campaign were running low.
Above all, rivalries among and within the intelligence services meant that information was divided, hoarded, blocked, scattered.
