2004, ISBN: 9781234314309

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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 28 pages. Original publisher: Washington, D. C. : Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2004 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)60716812 Subject: Intelligence service -- United States -- Congresses. Excerpt: . . . But one of the things that. . . rescued us a number of times was a deep, deep understanding of common conclusion, and they can brief those at a level of detail where you could go into a the facts and the conclusions to anybody they want. The British room and defend your argument. I do have the issues at a level system is open, but coordinated. That is, impression right now that we go into rooms of detail where unarmed to deal with serious critics who know intelligence agencies arent permitted to brief you could go into a lot. their conclusions to policymakers except a room and through the Joint Intelligence Committee, defend your which is chaired by a policymaker and which argument. comes to a coordinated judgment, and only that coordinated judgment goes to the I think policymakers and decisionmakers can fancy that they are, in fact, better than the policymakers. And theres the German system, which is neither transparent nor intelligence analysts because they get the coordinated; in which the intelligence agencies same data. The only thing they dont have is 30 secretly pass such information as they choose years worth of looking at this country and what to such policymakers as they wish. that does in the brain cells in the back of the brain, which it doesnt if youve been doing other things for 30 years. But one of the things that, it seemed to me, rescued us a number of times was a deep, deep understanding of the facts and the issues 5 This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<