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I suspect it is a problem in the system in general. The little fiefdoms in the Beltway Bureaucracy. Dataminers are very low on the totem pole and if they are percieved to be overstepping their bounds, they get slapped down by their higher ups.
I tend to give credence to these sorts of reports but I don't think the blame can fall on either Clinton or Bush rather it should fall on middle management and their immediate superiors not wishing to rock the boat.
From some of the things I have been reading it appears that intelligence community in DC is a nasty multi-headed hydra and none of the heads like to be told what to by any of the other heads and all of the heads are constantly looking to be the head head... if you follow me.
I don't find it all that surprising that things like this fell through the cracks pre-9/11.
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