Spying blind : the CIA, the FBI, and the origins of 9/11
Zegart, Amy B., 1967-2007
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Place reservation for Spying blind : the CIA, the FBI, and the origins of 9/11This is a scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. This text shows how and why the intelligence system itself left the US vulnerable.
Main title:
Spying blind : the CIA, the FBI, and the origins of 9/11 / Amy B. Zegart.
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Imprint:
Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Collation:
xvi, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Formerly CIP. UkIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-307) and index.
Contents:
An organizational view of 9/11 -- Canaries in the coal mine : the case for failed adaptation -- Crossing an academic no-man's land : explaining failed adaptation -- Fighting Osama one bureaucrat at a time : adaptation failure in the CIA -- Signals found and lost : the CIA and 9/11 -- Real men don't type : adaptation failure in the FBI -- Evidence teams at the ready : the FBI and 9/11 -- The more things change-- -- Appendix : Intelligence reform catalog methodology.
ISBN:
9780691120218 (hbk)
Dewey class:
327.12
Language:
English
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BRN:
758590
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