The Surveillance State: Big Data, Freedom, and You Season 1 Episode 5 Failing to Connect the Dots on 9/11
- TV-PG
- March 4, 2016
- 32 min
After 9/11, the CIA and the FBI were faulted for not sharing intelligence in advance of the attacks. But the two agencies faced stringent legal restrictions on sharing information, going back to the 1978 FISA legislation, which erected a €œwall€ between intelligence gathering and criminal investigations. Review the reasons for and the history of this legislation and the changes that happened after 9/11.