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.

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Military Oversight Chairman Snyder Aims at the Fog of War

When Rep. Vic Snyder, the six-term Democrat from Arkansas, begins to talk about the shortsighted military policies of the Bush administration in Iraq, I half-expect to see the tight-lipped outrage of the Vietnam veteran he is. But last week, the chairman of the revitalized House Armed Service Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee responded with the calm detachment of a physician — which he also is.

CQ Politics(06/06/2008)

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)

Wake Me When the Apocalypse Starts

So, the apocalypse seems to be drawing nigh, but what are the details?

As it turns out, while CNN was showcasing fundamentalist Christian authors hawking books about the “end of days,” the Pentagon was imagining a scenario that looked awfully close to the real thing.
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CQ Homeland Security (8/04/2006)