Intelligence for an Age of Terror (repost)
Intelligence for an Age of Terror By Gregory F. Treverton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0521518458 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0521518458 | PDF | 1 MB
During the Cold War, U.S. intelligence was concerned primarily with states; non-state actors like terrorists were secondary. Now the priorities are reversed. And the challenge is enormous. States had an address, and they were hierarchical and bureaucratic. They thus came with some "story." Terrorists do not. States were "over there," but terrorists are there and here. They thus put pressure on intelligence at home, not just abroad. They also force intelligence and law enforcement - the CIA and the FBI - to work together in new ways, and if those 700,000 police officers in the United States are to be the eyes and ears in the fight against terror, new means of sharing not just information but also analysis across the federal system are imperative.