pat lang on intel reform

The ambivalently reasonable Pat Lang weighs in on intelligence reform:

I never thought that the 9/11 intelligence failure was a failure of analysis, i.e., a failure to "connect the dots." I have always thought that the problem was that there were not enough dots for the analysts to connect. In other words, the failure was one of information collection rather than analysis. Has that failure in the HUMINT area been "fixed." I do not know but the fact that we have not captured or killed "the tallest man in Afghanistan" gives one pause.