The anthology includes:
* Articles examining a wide variety of important issues (satellite surveillance, 9/11, the search for WMDs in Iraq, homeland security, and counterterrorism)
* An epilogue analyzing the current state of intelligence
* Introductions at the beginning of each piece that help to contextualize chapter content
* Discussion questions at the end of each chapter that reinforce key concepts and encourage class participation
* Comprehensive coverage of many hot topics including the history of intelligence, how the United States gathers and interprets global information, the meaning of security intelligence, methods of intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, the danger of intelligence politicization, relationships between intelligence officers and the policymakers they serve, covert action, counterintelligence, accountability and civil liberties, the implications of major intelligence failures in 2001 and 2003, and intelligence as practiced in other nationsand the implementation of lessons learned from historical major intelligence failures.
James J. Wirtz is Dean of the School of International Graduate Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
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Barry Goldwater, grandfather of the modern far-right, tried to derail the Church Committee hearings before they began by shifting blame from the intelligence agencies to the President. From Loch Johnson's "A Season of Inquiry" https://t.co/62bqjb7em0
New book: FLEE NORTH: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland. Before: New York Times (15 years) and Baltimore Sun (21 years).
Republicans call their new "weaponization of government" committee the new Church Committee, which did the epic intelligence investigations of the 1970s. Here's an actual Church staffer, the estimable Loch K. Johnson, disputing the comparison: https://t.co/wxYoWX3yt0