Research Catalog

Title

Transforming U.S. intelligence / Jennifer E. Sims and Burton Gerber, editors ; in cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Sims, Jennifer E.
• Gerber, Burton
• Georgetown University. Center for Peace and Security Studies.

Description

xvi, 285 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

Supports the mandate of the new director of national intelligence by offering both careful analysis of existing strengths and weaknesses in U.S. intelligence and specific recommendations on how to fix its problems without harming its strengths. These recommendations, based on intimate knowledge of the way U.S. intelligence actually works, include suggestions for the creative mixing of technologies with new missions to bring about the transformation of U.S. intelligence without incurring unnecessary harm or expense. The goal is the creation of an intelligence community that can rapidly respond to developments in international politics, such as the emergence of nimble terrorist networks while reconciling national security requirements with the rights and liberties of American citizens. [Publisher web site].

Alternative Title

• Transforming US intelligence
• Transforming United States intelligence

Subject

Intelligence service > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Jennifer E. Sims and Burton Gerber -- New requirements -- The twenty-first-century challenge for U.S. intelligence / Ernest R. May -- Understanding friends and enemies: the context for American intelligence reform / Jennifer E. Sims -- Understanding ourselves / Jennifer E. Sims -- New capabilities -- Integrating open sources into transnational threat assessments / Amy Sands -- Clandestine human intelligence: spies, counterspies, and covert action / John MacGaffin -- The digital dimension / James R. Gosler -- Analysis and estimates: professional practices in intelligence production / Douglas MacEachin -- Denial and deception / Donald C.F. Daniel -- Management challenges -- Managing domestic, military, and foreign policy requirements: correcting Frankenstein's blunder / James Monnier Simon, Jr -- Intelligence and war: Afghanistan, 2001-2002 / Henry A. Crumpton -- Managing HUMINT--the need for a new approach / Burton Gerber -- Intelligence and homeland defense / Henry A. Crumpton -- Intelligence analysis: management and transformation issues / Mark M. Lowenthal -- Congressional oversight of intelligence after September 11 / L. Britt Snider -- Meeting the challenge: action now / Jennifer E. Sims and Burton Gerber.

ISBN

1589010698 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2005008373
• 9781589010697

OCLC

• 58721254
• SCSB-11094514

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library