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Line. that theres a atlantic information thats become so big that its in some sense has overwhelmed the progress thats been made in other areas like information sharing. >> well, when we had the christmas bomber, we had information coming from the father of the suspect who said my sons on the warpath. hes come together united states. we had smultd information from yemen that something was up in that area and nobody put the dots together. what has your reporting told us about dot connection? >> t...

Right now because we have all of this bureaucracy and all of these intelligence analysts. >> what do you say to dick cheney? he had his mitts all over this. >> if you want to fix the problem which has grown up under at least two presidents, obviously under two presidents then you have to make it a presidential priority and you have to put somebody in charge of one of the toughest things youll ever see in washington, reform of bureaucracy. unless do you that, nothing will change for the better. >...

Been made in other areas like information sharing. >> well, when we had the christmas bomber, we had information coming from the father of the suspect who said my sons on the warpath. hes come together united states. we had simultaneous information from yemen that something was up in that area and nobody put the dots together. what has your reporting told us about dot connection? >> thats a perfect example of how the largeness of the system has overwhelmed some of the progress because really, it...

Attacks like the fort hood massacre and christmas day underwear bombing. thats the conclusion of a now two year investigation by reporters for the "the washington post." which now says the main problem is, there were just too many dots. according to the first of three installments in todays newspaper, almost 1300 government organizations working counter terrorism and homeland security along with close to 2,000 private companies. intelligence analysts put out more than 50,000 reports a year. acco...

Five shots look the best. look for continuous mode in your next camera, if it doesnt already have it, and chances are it does. >> and light is your friend. because we dont know too much or not enough can certainly be your enemy. >> cameras usually have low light performance so the shots look grainy like theres little dots on them. that light is important. im not going to get complicated with iso settings or anything like that. if youre taking a shot, remember to put the sun behind you. even if t...

Before hand and fail to connect the dots? that was a separate bit of intelligence and found out to be part of the report and thats how it came to light. >> mike what was the plan and does it have relation to the bomber? >> no. there is nothing to conclude a connection between the two. but this report like thousands and thousands of potential bits and information that comes from sources. flying around all of the time. this got put in the report . so the information was released december 4th. befo...

Family whenever we went to new york, the boys, to sean. he was just -- he -- i tell you, theres two sides to him. he could fire someone in a second. we prevented him from firing someone. there was a security guard, wouldnt letmy two boys on the field. of course, they didnt have passes -- >> larry, thank you. >> larry: he went up -- >> were out of time. larrys back tomorrow. time for anderson cooper and "ac 360." were live in port-au-prince keeping them honest. thousands of people are spending ye...

To go to a particular warehouse and then go to a hospital -- >> we assume theres a computer guy just tracking all this stuff coming in and knowing what all these ngos are doing. thats not the case at all. >> not at all. in fact, when this organization showed up with this truck to this warehouse, he didnt do anything illegal. he literally just went in there and said, we need these supplies. he went into the warehouse and said, we have those, just take them. there was no money that exchanged hands...

Thats not the case at all. >> not at all. in fact, when this organization showed up with this truck to this warehouse, he didnt do anything illegal. he literally just went in there and said, we need these supplies. he went into the warehouse and said, we have those, just take them. there was no money that exchanged hands or anything. they knew it had to get out there. they just had no distribution plan. you saw those warehouses, football field size warehouses -- >> they need really smart guys fr...

Theres some u.n. compound where theres some map with little dots on a map, but its got to be done electronically, done so that everybody has a printout and instant access to where information is, where medicine is and whats happening. >> maybe theyre listening and maybe theyll do something like that. butt one thing i should point out, i dont know if you noticed in the piece, that it was all local haitians who were actually moving those boxes. this organization hires local folks. its literally on...