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 son s on the warpath. he s coming to to the 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? that s a perfect example of how the largeness of the system has overwhelmed some of the progress because really, it s become so big that it s blurred the lines of responsibility where people aren t sure whether they re the ones that are responsible for getting to the very bottom of a tip. we had this new national counter-terrorism center that was created where thousands of people work. it costs billions to set up. it was supposed to be the premiere organization to do that. and yet, they didn t run the tips to ground. and what happened after that, when they admitted they had a problem was they asked for more a