Richard Grenell, incoming Envoy for Special Missions who served as acting Director of National Intelligence during the first Trump administration, is sounding the alarm suggesting that a lack of intelligence sharing is putting Americans at risk, according to Breitbart. On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Finnerty,” Grenell addressed the concern while discussing the terror attack in New Orleans in which a terrorist drove a truck into a crowd killing at least 15 people during New Years Eve celebrations.
Grenell recalled the problem with intelligence sharing that was found after the September 11 terror attacks in 2001.
“Look, one of the things that happened after 9/11 is we did this big report and we issued this belief and changed our bureaucracy because our intelligence agencies had the pieces, but they didn’t communicate,” Grenell said.
The problem is not only still prevalent, but has gotten worse, he suggested, noting that the FBI has issues with not acting quickly enough on information it finds out.
“I think we still have this problem, and it’s a growing problem,” Grenell continued. “We need to be able to get to the bottom of what did the FBI know, what did our intelligence agencies know, and what didn’t they do to act?”
Authorities are still searching for answers following the horrific terror attack launched on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The FBI is continuing to find more developments as they investigate the terrorist who committed the act. The bureau has, thus far, investigated the terrorist’s home, old videos, his social media, including his pledge of allegiance to ISIS, and the Airbnb possibly linked to him among other areas of interest.
According to Fox News, the FBI has said they believe that the Bourbon Street terrorist was a “lone wolf.”
