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Author Zegart, Amy B., 1967-

Title Spying blind : the CIA, the FBI, and the origins of 9/11 / Amy B. Zegart.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-307) and index.
Contents An organizational view of 9/11 -- Canaries in the coal mine : the case for failed adaptation -- Crossing an academic no-man's land : explaining failed adaptation -- Fighting Osama one bureaucrat at a time : adaptation failure in the CIA -- Signals found and lost : the CIA and 9/11 -- Real men don't type : adaptation failure in the FBI -- Evidence teams at the ready : the FBI and 9/11 -- The more things change-- -- Appendix : Intelligence reform catalog methodology.
Summary 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.
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Subject United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Intelligence service -- United States.
Intelligence service.
United States.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States.
Terrorism -- Government policy.
Chronological Term 2001
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Zegart, Amy B., 1967- Spying blind. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691120218 0691120218 (DLC) 2006103325 (OCoLC)77573141
ISBN 9781400830275 (electronic book)
1400830273 (electronic book)
0691141037
9780691141039
9780691120218
0691120218
9780691141039