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Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11
Potomac Books
October 2013
On Sale: September 30, 2013
277 pages
ISBN: 1612346154
EAN: 9781612346151
Kindle: B00FPKSUD4
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Non-Fiction
After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued
that the United States needed a powerful leader, a
spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies
into a singular enterprise to vanquish America’s new
enemies—stateless international terrorists. In the midst of
the 2004 presidential election, Congress and the president
remade the post–World War II national security
infrastructure in less than five months, creating the Office
of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and a
National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
Blinking
Red illuminates the complicated history of the
bureaucratic efforts to reform America’s national security
after the intelligence failures of 9/11 and Iraq’s missing
weapons of mass destruction, explaining how the NSC and
Congress shaped the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks.
Michael Allen asserts that the process of creating the DNI
position and the NCTC is a case study in power politics and
institutional reform. By bringing to light the legislative
transactions and political wrangling during the reform of
the intelligence community, Allen helps us understand why
the effectiveness of these institutional changes is still in
question.
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