Spying blind :: the CIA, the FBI, and the origins of 9/11 /

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. Zegar...

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1. Verfasser: Zegart, Amy B., 1967-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
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Zusammenfassung:In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. 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, dr.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-307) and index.
ISBN:9781400830275
1400830273
0691141037
9780691141039

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