Rent-a-Spy

Three quarters of the U.S. intelligence budget now goes to outside contractors, Tim Shorrock says in an important new book. And that ain't good. A review of Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing.

The Washington Post(05/29/2008)

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)

Iran Intelligence Report: Garbage In, Garbage Out

"Nobody knows anything,” the screenwriter William Goldman once said of Hollywood. You might say the same about U.S. intelligence, which can’t seem to make up its mind about Iran. Two years ago it said Iran was racing to make nukes. Last week it said — well, you know: Nev-er-mind. Which is it?
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CQ Homeland Security (06/01/2007)

Iraq Intelligence Horror Stories Shouldn't Be Old News

Hearing horror stories about the manipulation of Iraq intelligence is like watching “The Exorcist” again and again: Each time you see something new and laugh at the parts that used to make your hair go up straight.
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CQ Homeland Security (05/25/2007)

DHS Intelligence Chief Reaches Out to CIA Friends

CIA veteran Charlie Allen, who has been shaking up the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence wing for the past 18 months, has brought aboard four spy agency veterans to study the mega-bureaucracy’s vulnerability to enemy penetration.
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CQ Homeland Security
(03/09/2007)

Past Could Haunt Old Faces in Latest Intelligence Shuffle

John D. Negroponte, eagerly packing for the State Department, must have rued more than once that he knew just how John Nance Garner felt.
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CQ Homeland Security (01/05/2007)

Spytalk: Army General Tells a Little-Known Tale of Pre-War Intelligence on Iraq

He goes by the nickname “Spider.” And it’s doubtful you’ve ever heard of him, even though his role in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has been recounted in two recent exposes about the Bush administration’s runup to the Iraq war.
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CQ Homeland Security (10/20/2006)

Terrorists Strain for a New Audience With an English-Language Study of U.S. Intelligence

The holy warriors’ intelligence shop may need a shake-up, by the looks of a new analysis of White House responses to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, circulating among password-protected jihad Web sites.
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CQ Homeland Security (10/2/2006)