Spying Blind

In the recently published Spying Blind, Amy Zegart argues that after the Cold War ended, the CIA and FBI failed to adapt to the rise of terrorism. She makes the case by conducting painstaking analysis of more than three hundred intelligence reform recommendations and tracing the history of CIA and FBI counterterrorism efforts from 1991 to 2001. Zegart finds that political leaders were well aware of the emerging terrorist danger and the urgent need for intelligence reform, but failed to achieve the changes they sought. The same forces that have stymied intelligence reform for decades are to blame: resistance inside U.S. intelligence agencies, the rational interests of politicians and career bureaucrats, and core aspects of our democracy such as the fragmented structure of the federal government. Zegart argues that these three systemic adaptation barriers allowed nagging organizational weaknesses to endure--ultimately leading the CIA and FBI to miss twenty-three opportunities to disrupt the 9/11 plot.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• 9/11
• CIA
• FBI
• Intelligence
• Failure
• Spy
• Spies
• Agency

[willboywonder]

Geat analysis, and I want to get the book: Spying Bling.

[kyushu2002]

Excellent insight to the Intel Community.

[VivaLaVidaLA]

And she's an incredible, passionate professor. Makes me wish she was running the country!

[HateMccain]

Everyone should see this video, and read Amy's "Spying Blind" book. Dr. Zegart offers an absolutely brilliant analysis of the single most important counterterrorism issue of our time.

[suicide1112]

What a splending channel.

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