Director of National Intelligence Says U.S. Didn't Connect Available Information

U.S. Spy Chief: 9/11 'Could Have Been Prevented'

Six years after the deadliest attack on U.S. soil, the head of U.S. spy operations admitted to lawmakers that "9/11 should have and could have been prevented." Director of National Intelligence, Michael McConnell, told members of the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that "it was an issue of connecting information that was available." McConnell, explaining that the intelligence community was, at the time, very focused on foreign threats, said the community allowed itself "to be separated from anything that was potentially domestic," and that domestic threats were "not something we supposed to be concerned with." "Yeah, that translates to negligence," charged committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich. "Or interpretation of the law of how the culture had evolved," McConnell countered.