9/11 taught us deadly lessons. 25 years later, we need a new model to prevent attacks

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel told The Atlantic’s "David Frum Show" podcast that Democrats risk driving Jewish voters from the party if their concerns about antisemitism are dismissed. One of the central findings of the 9/11 Commission was that the intelligence and law enforcement communities had gathered enough signals to potentially detect and disrupt the plot but failed to "connect the dots" due to poor information-sharing, the siloing of information and other barriers to collaboration. The failure to connect those dots came at the immediate cost of 3,000 American lives – and the death or injury of over 60,000 U.S. servicemembers in the wars that followed the attacks. The efforts to address the failures that led to 9/11 built the Department of Homeland Security, expanded Joint Terrorism Task Forces, established fusion centers where agencie

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