Title: Enemies of Intelligence
First published: 2007
Description: "Combining research with personal experience, Betts outlines strategies for better intelligence gathering and assessment. He describes how fixing one malfunction can create another; in what ways expertise can be both a vital tool and a source of error and misjudgment; the pitfalls of always striving for accuracy in intelligence, which in some cases can render it worthless; the danger, though unavoidable, of "politicizing" intelligence; and the issue of secrecy - when it is excessive, when it is insufficient, and how limiting privacy can in fact protect civil liberties."--Jacket.
Subjects: Intelligence service, Terrorism, National security, Prevention, Intelligence service, united states, National security, united states, Terrorism, united states, Terrorism, prevention
Places: United States
LC classification: JK468.I6 B44 2007