Intelligence reforms

Resource Information

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Label

Intelligence reforms

Statement of responsibility

by Brian Hansen

Title variation

Will they prevent future terrorist attacks?

Creator

• Hansen, Brian

Subject

• Civil rights -- United States
• Electronic books
• Electronic bookss
• Espionage, American
• United States, Central Intelligence Agency
• Intelligence service -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

Intelligence officials were warned in 1995 that terrorists were plotting to hijack airliners and crash them into landmark buildings in the United States. Yet, the horrific events that unfolded on Sept. 11 took the CIA, the FBI and the rest of the U.S. intelligence community by surprise. Some experts call the attacks the worst intelligence failure in American history, while others maintain that the nation's spy agencies had no way of detecting or preventing the multipronged, international conspiracy. This much is certain: The attacks have prompted lawmakers to impose major changes on the nation's intelligence-gathering agencies. But the rush to overhaul the intelligence apparatus troubles some experts, who fear the changes will be ineffective. Others say the reforms have breached the traditional wall between criminal investigations and intelligence gathering, potentially curtailing citizens' civil liberties

Member of

• CQ researcher, V. 12, no. 3

Additional physical form

Also available in print.

Cataloging source

CQPDC

Dewey number

327.1273

Index

no index present

LC call number

JK468.I6

LC item number

H36 2002eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography