James Woolsey's take on what is needed to improve our counter-terrorism efforts. I agree with him that there are too many people with access to intercepts.

He points out the fact that a few individuals with different information were able to foresee the attacks of 9/11, which confirms my belief that bureaucracy the problem. Intuitve flashes of insight will seldom making through all the levels of assessment involved in "normal channels." The problem is that there is a vast amount of informational to be sifted. Also the people who forsaw the last attacks may be blind to signals of the next one.

It's obvious that we need a new approach and that we need to be creative and not allow the past to restrict the future. Mr. Woolsey has provided some key ideas about how this should be done.