Blinking red : crisis and compromise in American intelligence after 9/11 /

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"Blinking Red illuminates the complicated history of the bureaucratic efforts to reform America's national security after the intelligence failures of 9/11 and Iraq's missing weapons of mass destruction, explaining how the NSC and Congress shaped the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allen, Michael, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2013]
Subjects:
Intelligence service > United States.
National security > United States.
Terrorism > Prevention.
Terrorisme > Prévention.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Intelligence service
National security
Terrorism > Prevention
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A note on intelligence and its terminology
  • A short history of the intelligence community
  • Blow up
  • The making of a juggernaut : the origins of the 9/11 Commission and its recommendations
  • Tenet
  • Revolution is coming
  • Grand vision
  • "The fix was in" : initial consideration in Congress and the White House
  • Congressional August
  • The devil in the details : NSC consideration of a DNI and an NCTC
  • Cabinet room
  • Attackers
  • High ransom
  • Touching gloves
  • Dirty bombs
  • Time for a new approach
  • Black Saturday
  • Win at all costs
  • Bureaucratic black arts.

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