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...understand a terrorist's intentions, habits, methods and psychology. And where the agency once turned tips around with the speed of a turtle, it now operates on a hair trigger, often disseminating information about potential suspects and plots before it has been corroborated by multiple sources. Even the wispiest bits of data are quickly fed to the entire intelligence community and in many cases to 18,000 local and state police agencies. "That's a sea change," says a top FBI executive, who adds a comment the rest of the world discovered a decade ago: "The power of information...
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