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" It was not until 1962 that the definitive report on Pearl Harbor was written. And then, it was not written by a government committee, but by an academic named Roberta Wohlstetter. She concluded that the problem had not been a scarcity of information, but an overabundance of it. It was difficult, Wohlstetter concluded, to identify the reports that mattered among the avalanche of intelligence and other inputs. "

Richard A. Clarke , Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes


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Richard A. Clarke quote : It was not until 1962 that the definitive report on Pearl Harbor was written. And then, it was not written by a government committee, but by an academic named Roberta Wohlstetter. She concluded that the problem had not been a scarcity of information, but an overabundance of it. It was difficult, Wohlstetter concluded, to identify the reports that mattered among the avalanche of intelligence and other inputs.