"Now There Are Nine"

Lawrence Wright tells The Economist:

Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11. Since then it hasn't done a good job of hiring the kind of people who speak and understand the languages and cultures of that region. One of the heroes of my book and my film, Ali Soufan, the FBI agent who came closer than anyone at stopping 9/11, was one of eight Arabic-speaking agents at the FBI on 9/11. Now there are nine. The really woeful thing about it is that if Ali Soufan tried...