Review: 'The Watchers,' by Shane Harris

Harris makes a surprisingly persuasive case that Poindexter and his fellow "watchers," intelligence professionals dedicated to building better anti-terrorist mousetraps, were right - or at least onto something that deserved a closer, more thoughtful scrutiny than the scorn and ridicule, not to mention alarm, that it garnered in 2003.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/05/RVN01C33LU.DTL#ixzz0hiLS8t5S

Gen. McChrystal Is No MacArthur

A half century ago President Harry Truman tamed a rebellious -- and hugely popular -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who wanted to dramatically expand the war in Korea by attacking China.
President Obama faces a similar challenge today from his commander in Afghanistan, Gen। Stanley McChrystal, who wants to send tens of thousands more American troops to his war.
Read more here. (Huffington Post, Oct. 7, 2009)

Pentagon Intelligence Comes Off as M*A*S*H in New Book

Anyone who’s spent time in uniform will recognize the stories that A.J. Rossmiller tells in “Still Broken: A Recruit’s Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, From Baghdad to the Pentagon.” His DIA has its own versions of Hawkeye, B.J., Colonel Potter, and of course, Frank Burns.

CQ Politics(02/08/2008)