"The digital intelligence space is fragmented with some folks focused on web, others on mobile," he told me in an interview.
The new security protocols will be built around present-day threat situations, officials said, where fragments of intelligence from various threat streams are considered.
The fragments of intelligence that came in periodically after the inspectors were withdrawn were never enough to prove that Mr. Hussein had abandoned his weapons programs, and so the natural inclination was to assume that those programs were still under way.
One former officer recalls that the woman had a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of Al Qaeda's top leadership and was so familiar with the different permutations of the leaders' names that she could take fragments of intelligence and build them into a mosaic of Al Qaeda's operations.
But anecdotal evidence and fragments of intelligence have already emerged which offer potentially useful leads.
Without an embassy in Pyongyang, the Americans hoover up any fragment of intelligence from foreign contacts.
But the truth is that the fate and well-being of mankind is our own responsibility, and happily - despite all the turpitude weighed against it - the world contains enough human intelligence and kindness to offer fragments of hope for the future.
Rather than having a galvanizing effect, however, the Joint Inquiry record reveals that the intelligence community continued to be fragmented without a comprehensive strategy for combating bin Laden.
I, on the other hand, through the upsetting, complicating and stultifying effects of a terrific neurosis, could build nothing substantial on my intelligence, which came through only in fragments and distorted bits".
Intelligence, they argue, is about piecing together fragments of information and building up spider diagrams of connections between suspects.
