The White House has stated that the Christmas Day bombing attempt on a U.S. airplane was the result of a failure to "identify, correlate and fuse" available data into a coherent story.

"In listing the various causes for this failure, the report noted that information technology within the counter-terrorism community 'did not sufficiently enable the correlation of data that would have enabled analysts to highlight the relevant threat information,'" writes Computerworld's Jaikumar Vijayan.

"The report called on the director of national intelligence to 'accelerate information technology enhancements' in areas such as knowledge discovery, database integration and cross-database searches," Vijayan writes.

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