Morning Snip:
Haystack
Ken Dilanian, writing about counterterrorism information-sharing, inthe Los Angeles Times, talks to Russell Travers, of the National Counterterrorism Center. (via The Morning News)
The Herculean task of separating relevant information from background noise makes terrorism analysis an extraordinarily difficult art, he said, and there is no button to push to identify non-obvious relationships.
“What I think we can do,” he said, “is shrink the haystack and make it somewhat easier for the analysts.”