Enemies of Intelligence Knowledge and Power in American National Security

Name: Enemies of Intelligence Knowledge and Power in American National Security
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ISBN: 9780231138888

ISBN-10: 0231138881

ISBN-13: 9780231138888

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard Betts

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The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the false assessment of Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal were terrible reminders that good information is essential to national security. These failures convinced the American public that their intelligence system was broken and prompted a radical reorganization of agencies and personnel, but as Richard K. Betts argues in this book, critics and politicians have severely underestimated the obstacles to true reform. One of the nation's foremost political scientists, Betts draws on three decades of work within the U.S. intelligence community to illuminate the paradoxes and problems that frustrate the intelligence process. Unlike America's efforts…

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List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/6/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

RICHARD BETTS ï¿½has been featured in the New York Times , Wine Spectator, Food & Wine, Outside, GQ, and Details and speaks frequently on wine throughout the country. He is the founder of two wine companies, Betts & Scholl and Scarpetta, that have won top praise from leading wine publications.ï¿½He is also theï¿½founder and president of Sombra Mezcal and Tequila Astral, and his newest wine ventures include Saint Glinglin Bordeaux, My Essential Red, and My Essential Rosï¿½.



Preface



Twenty-first-Century Intelligence: New Enemies and Old



Permanent Enemies: Why Intelligence Failures Are Inevitable



Theory Traps: Expertise as an Enemy



Incorruptibility or Influence? Costs and Benefits of Politicization



Two Faces of Failure: September 11 and Iraq's WMD



An Intelligence Reformation? Two Faces of Reorganization



Whose Knowledge of Whom? The Conflict of Secrets



Enemies at Bay: Successful Intelligence


Notes


Index