If that intelligence had been shared, it may very well have prevented 9/11.
The newspaper said the intelligence had been shared "among Western allies and also passed on to Israel".
There were also reports — by ABC News and others — that some of the Israeli intelligence had been shared in advance with the United States, which had raised no objection to the bombing.
It insisted unilateral action should not become the norm and stressed that Pakistani intelligence had been sharing information with the US in recent years.
Moscow's only aircraft carrier, which is travelling to a strike position in the eastern Mediterranean, will be used to enhance Russian firepower over Aleppo in support of the Syrian regime, according to the intelligence analysis, which has been shared with The Times.
The U.S. military already has been sharing intelligence about the Mali rebels with France, an exchange that will continue, according to a senior U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive operations.
If that intelligence would have been shared, the system as it stood before 9/11--where a joint law enforcement, military and intelligence approach was used--would have worked.
Even if all the raw intelligence signals had been shared among the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the White House, I'm convinced that there was no one there who would have put them all together, who would have imagined evil on the scale Osama bin Laden did.
The White House refused to comment on the intelligence reports, which have been shared with senior members of Congress.
Even if this is the case, and such intelligence would not have been shared with us if our relationship had been slightly less close, we still have moral obligations as a nation.
But a senior intelligence official said that under Mr. Bush, the intelligence digest included more operational, real-time information than before, including detail about the sources of intelligence that could not have been shared with a larger audience.
