National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold WarCraig Eisendrath Temple University Press, 28 nov. 2000 - 240 sidor A drastic reform of intelligence activities is long overdue. The Cold War has been over for ten years. No country threatens this nation's existence. Yet we still spend billions of dollars on covert action and espionage. In National Insecurity ten prominent experts describe, from an insider perspective, what went wrong with U.S. intelligence and what will be necessary to fix it. Drawing on their experience in government administration, research, and the foreign service, they propose a radical rethinking of the United States' intelligence needs in the post-Cold War world. In addition, they offer a coherent and unified plan for reform that can simultaneously protect U. S. security and uphold the values of our democratic system. As we now know, even during the Cold War, when intelligence was seen as a matter of life and death, our system served us badly. It provided unreliable information, which led to a grossly inflated military budget, as it wreaked havoc around the world, supporting corrupt regimes, promoting the drug trade, and repeatedly violating foreign and domestic laws. Protected by a shroud of secrecy, it paid no price for its mistakes. Instead it grew larger and more insulated every year. Taking into consideration our strategic interests abroad as well as the price of covert operations in dollars, in reliability, and in good will, every American taxpayer can be informed by and will want to read this book. National Insecurity is essential for readers interested in contemporary political issues, international relations, U.S. history, public policy issues, foreign policy, intelligence reform, and political science. |
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... allied bombing has destroyed a lot of the brick - and - mortar installations , but many key materials and much equipment have survived . More important , Iraq's formidable corps of scientists , technicians , and weapons experts has been ...
... allied bombing has destroyed a lot of the brick - and - mortar installations , but many key materials and much equipment have survived . More important , Iraq's formidable corps of scientists , technicians , and weapons experts has been ...
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... allied intelligence underestimated . the size of the Iraqi nuclear program and overestimated the damage that the bombing during the Gulf War had done to it . On January 23 , 1991 , for example , President Bush said , " Our pinpoint ...
... allied intelligence underestimated . the size of the Iraqi nuclear program and overestimated the damage that the bombing during the Gulf War had done to it . On January 23 , 1991 , for example , President Bush said , " Our pinpoint ...
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... allies . Satellite observation continues to be extremely valuable and entails no political cost . The same is true of monitoring foreign broadcasts and of the code- breaking and monitoring performed by the National Security Agency . The ...
... allies . Satellite observation continues to be extremely valuable and entails no political cost . The same is true of monitoring foreign broadcasts and of the code- breaking and monitoring performed by the National Security Agency . The ...
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... allies in Europe and Asia have grown increasingly impa- tient with the intrusive presence of clandestine officers in U.S. embassies . We must therefore address where , when , and whether covert actions are still necessary . We must ask ...
... allies in Europe and Asia have grown increasingly impa- tient with the intrusive presence of clandestine officers in U.S. embassies . We must therefore address where , when , and whether covert actions are still necessary . We must ask ...
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... allies included Sheikh Omar Abdul - Rahman , who was imprisoned in New York for seditious conspiracy to wage a " war of urban terrorism against the United States , " and Muhammad Shawqi Islarnbouli , the older brother of the assassin of ...
... allies included Sheikh Omar Abdul - Rahman , who was imprisoned in New York for seditious conspiracy to wage a " war of urban terrorism against the United States , " and Muhammad Shawqi Islarnbouli , the older brother of the assassin of ...
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3 Too Many Spies Too Little Intelligence | 45 |
4 CIAForeign Service Relations | 61 |
The Blowback Problem | 76 |
US National Security and the New Openness Movement | 92 |
Narcotics as Fallout From the CIAs Covert Wars | 118 |
Priorities Managerial Changes and Funding | 172 |
10 Whos Watching the Store? ExecutiveBranch and Congressional Surveillance | 190 |
Conclusions | 212 |
Selected Bibliography | 223 |
About The Center for International Policy | 227 |
About the Contributors | 231 |
Index | 233 |
The NSA the NRO and NIMA | 149 |
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