Spies, strategies and missed opportunities: How the lessons of 9/11 are still being learnt

Spies, strategies and missed opportunities: How the lessons of 9/11 are still being learnt

By Frank Gardner Security correspondent The first duty of a government, countless leaders over the decades have said, is to safeguard its population. On 11 September 2001 the US manifestly failed to do that. The intelligence was there, yet tragically, nobody joined up the dots in time.

9/11, as the attacks on the US became known, came to define – along with the response – a generation of foreign, security and intelligence policy for the first two decades of this century.