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Intelligence Failures Due to Information Overload
“We basically went from no information to floods. It just started flooding with everything. So now you were getting unassessed intelligence. You know, just about anything anyone said might be a threat”. US Secutary of State Condolezza Rice, in the half decade post 9/11 attack period. (Cited in E Butmiller Condolezza Rice, An American Life p158 (New York, Random Press).
How appropriate is this quotation for the overall intelligence community, given the exponential expansion of open source information, and are intelligence agencies prone to information overload?
In your answer research, identify, and include one case of too much incoming information/intelligence as a cause of intelligence failure.