Remember when one of the lessons of 9/11 was the revelation that the various departments of government don’t talk to each other and share important information?

That was supposed to change.

But it didn’t:

When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused, citing a large workload and a desire to protect its sources and tradecraft.

Frustrated, the State Department assigned a junior Foreign Service officer to find the names another way — by using Google.

You have got to be kidding me. Bush’s State Department began targeting suspects based on Google searches? This is how administration officials approach identifying suspects associated with a clandestine nuclear weapons program in a post-9/11, post-Iraq-intelligence-failures environment?

Feel safer?

The State Department’s googling resulted in 12 names of Iranian suspects.  but — surprise, surprise:

None of the 12 Iranians that the State Department eventually singled out for potential bans on international travel and business dealings is believed by the CIA to be directly connected to Iran’s most suspicious nuclear activities.

Is this any way to run a country’s anti-terrorist efforts?