Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence After 9/11

Name: Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence After 9/11
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ISBN: 9781612346151

ISBN-10: 1612346154

ISBN-13: 9781612346151

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael Allen

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After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America’s new enemies—stateless international terrorists. In the midst of the 2004 presidential election, Congress and the president remade the post–World War II national security infrastructure in less than five months, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and a National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).Blinking Red illuminates the complicated history of the bureaucratic efforts to reform America’s national security after the intelligence failures of 9/11…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Author's Note


A Note on Intelligence and Its Terminology


A Short History of the Intelligence Community



Blow Up



The Making of a Juggernaut: The Origins of the 9/11 Commission and Its Recommendations



Tenet



Revolution Is Coming



Grand Vision



"The Fix Was In": Initial Consideration in Congress and the White House



Congressional August



The Devil in the Details: NSC Consideration of a DM and an NCTC



Cabinet Room



Attackers



High Ransom



Touching Gloves



Dirty Bombs



Time for a New Approach



Black Saturday



Win at All Costs



Bureaucratic Black Arts


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author