11. Transforming U.S. Intelligence
- Author:
- Jennifer E. Sims and Burton Gerber
- Publication Date:
- 09-2005
- Content Type:
- Book
- Abstract:
- Intelligence failures prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the “missing” weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq have reminded Americans that good intelligence is crucial for national security. Indeed, the report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States led quickly to the enactment of legislation restructuring the intelligence community, underscoring both the capacity of American citizens to change their most secretive governmental institutions and their appreciation of the importance of the intelligence mission. The families of the victims of September 11 recognized their opportunity to reform the U.S. government's intelligence service and, remarkably, they did so. At the end of 2004 President George W. Bush signed into law the first strategically significant changes in the American intelligence system since it was created at the end of World War II.
- Topic:
- Conflict Prevention, Defense Policy, Terrorism, Insurgency, and Counterinsurgency
- Political Geography:
- United States