Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11 / Michael Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Michael, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Prevention.

Terrorism.

National security--United States.

National security.

Intelligence service--United States.

Intelligence service.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 250 pages ) illustrations ;

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America's new enemies--stateless international terrorists.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61234-616-2

OCLC:

859537525