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Book The DNI s 500 Day Plan

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book The DNI s 500 Day Plan written by United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Intelligence Issues and Developments

Download or read book Intelligence Issues and Developments written by Terrance M. Paulson and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Intelligence Community continues to adjust to the 21st Century environment. In the post-Cold War world, terrorism, narcotics trafficking and related money laundering is perceived both as criminal matters and as threats to the nation's security. Priority continues to be placed on intelligence support to military operations and on involvement in efforts to combat transnational threats, especially international terrorism. Growing concerns about transnational threats are leading to increasingly close co-operation between intelligence and law enforcement agencies. This book presents new in-depth analyses of developments in the field.

Book Protecting National Security and Civil Liberties

Download or read book Protecting National Security and Civil Liberties written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unlocking the Power of Networks

Download or read book Unlocking the Power of Networks written by Stephen Goldsmith and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publication The era of strict top-down, stovepiped public management in America is over. The traditional dichotomy between public ownership and privatization is an outdated notion. Public executives have shifted their focus from managing workers and directly providing services to orchestrating networks of public, private, and nonprofit organizations to deliver those services. Unlocking the Power of Networks employs original sector-specific analyses to reveal how networked governance achieves previously unthinkable policy goals. Stephen Goldsmith and Donald F. Kettl head a stellar cast of policy practitioners and scholars exploring the potential, strategies, and best practices of high-performance networks while identifying next-generation issues in public-sector network management. They cover the gamut of public policy issues, including national security, and the book even includes a thought-provoking look at how jihadist terrorists use the principles of network management to pursue their goals. Contributors: William G. Berberich (Virginia Tech), Tim Burke (Harvard University), G. Edward DeSeve (University of Pennsylvania),William D. Eggers (Manhattan Institute), Anne M. Khademian (Virginia Tech), H. Brinton Milward (University of Arizona), Mark H. Moore (Harvard University), Paul Posner (George Mason University), Jörg Raab (Tilburg University), and Barry G. Rabe (University of Michigan).

Book Spies  Wiretaps  and Secret Operations  2 volumes

Download or read book Spies Wiretaps and Secret Operations 2 volumes written by Glenn Peter Hastedt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive two-volume overview and analysis of all facets of espionage in the American historical experience, focusing on key individuals and technologies. In two volumes, Spies, Wiretaps, and Secret Operation: An Encyclopedia of American Espionage ranges across history to provide a comprehensive, thoroughly up-to-date introduction to spying in the United States—why it is done, who does it (both for and against the United States), how it is done, and what its ultimate impact has been. The encyclopedia includes hundreds of entries in chronologically organized sections that cover espionage by and within the United States from colonial times to the 21st century. Entries cover key individuals, technologies, and events in the history of American espionage. Volume two offers overviews of important agencies in the American intelligence community and intelligence organizations in other nations (both allies and adversaries), plus details of spy trade techniques, and a concluding section on the portrayal of espionage in literature and film. The result is a cornerstone resource that moves beyond the Cold War-centric focus of other works on the subject to offer an authoritative contemporary look at American espionage efforts past and present.

Book Keeping U S  Intelligence Effective

Download or read book Keeping U S Intelligence Effective written by William J. Lahneman and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping U.S. Intelligence Effective: The Need for a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs explores whether the U.S. intelligence enterprise will be able to remain effective in today's security environment. Based on the demands currently being placed upon the intelligence community, the analysis concludes that the effectiveness of U.S. intelligence will decline unless it embarks upon an aggressive, transformational course of action to reform various aspects of its operations. In keeping with the emerging literature on this subject, the book asserts that a so-called Revolution in Intelligence Affairs is needed.

Book Project on National Security Reform

Download or read book Project on National Security Reform written by and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2010 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Project on National Security Reform submitted its 2-year study of the national security system, Forging a New Shield, to the President, President-elect, and Congress on November 26, 2008. Before the Project finalized the report's recommendations, its Vision Working Group tested the findings against a diverse set of scenarios to determine if the recommendations were robust and effective. This volume documents the scenario-testing process used by the Vision Working Group and includes the actual pre-reform and post-reform scenarios and details many other scenario techniques used in the overall study. Results revealed that each of the five major findings improved the performance of the current national security system, but, on the whole, the findings concluded that the national security system was at risk of failure and needed serious reform. The work of the Vision Working Group has led to the formulation of an additional recommendation: The country must establish a mechanism to infuse greater foresight into the Executive Branch, and in particular the national security system. This proposed mechanism, named the Center for Strategic Analysis and Assessment, would exist and operate within the Executive Office of the President. This volume details the proposed architecture and operation of the Center.

Book Commerce  Justice  Science  and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2009

Download or read book Commerce Justice Science and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2009 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 2044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global Strategic Assessment 2009  America s Security Role in a Changing World

Download or read book Global Strategic Assessment 2009 America s Security Role in a Changing World written by Patrick M. Cronin and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of eight broad trends shaping the international security environment; a global analysis of the world's seven regions, to consider important developments in their distinctive neighborhoods; and, an examination of prospective U.S. contributions, military capabilities and force structure, national security organization, alliances and partnerships, and strategies.

Book US Central Intelligence Agency  CIA  Handbook   Strategic Information  Activities and Regulations

Download or read book US Central Intelligence Agency CIA Handbook Strategic Information Activities and Regulations written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) HANDBOOK

Book Security Clearance Reform

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Security Clearance Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enhancing U S  Preventive Action

Download or read book Enhancing U S Preventive Action written by Paul B. Stares and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 2009 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Preventive Action.

Book Security Clearance Reform

Download or read book Security Clearance Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland

Download or read book Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Information Sharing Environment

Download or read book Information Sharing Environment written by Eileen R. Larence and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attacks on 9/11 underscored the fed. government¿s need to facilitate terrorism-related info. sharing among gov¿t., private sector, and foreign stakeholders. In response, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act mandated the creation of the Info. Sharing Environment (ISE), which is an approach for the sharing of terrorism-related info. A Program Manager oversees ISE development with assistance from the Info. Sharing Council, a forum for 16 info. sharing officials from fed. agencies and dep¿ts. This is a report on: (1) what actions have been taken to guide the design and implementation of the ISE; and (2) what efforts have been made to report on progress in implementing the ISE. Includes recommendations. Illustrations.

Book The Threat on the Horizon

Download or read book The Threat on the Horizon written by Loch K. Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America's secret agencies. The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations in the U.S. intelligence community adapt to the quite different world that had emerged after the end of the Cold War in 1991. In The Threat on the Horizon, eminent national security scholar Loch K. Johnson, who served as Aspin's assistant, offers a comprehensive insider's account of this inquiry. Based on a close sifting of government documents and media reports, interviews with participants, and, above all, his own eyewitness impressions, Johnson's thorough history offers a unique window onto why the terrorist attacks of 2001 caught the United States by surprise and why the intelligence community failed again in 2002 when it predicted that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. It will be the first published account by an insider of a presidential commission on intelligence--a companion volume to Johnson's acclaimed study of the Church Committee investigation into intelligence in 1975 (A Season of Inquiry). This examination of the Aspin-Brown Commission is an invaluable source for anyone interested in the how the intelligence agencies of the world's most powerful nation struggled to confront new global threats that followed the collapse of the Soviet empire, and why Washington, D.C. was unprepared for the calamities that would soon arise.

Book Blinking Red

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Allen
  • Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
  • Release : 2013-09-30
  • ISBN : 1612346162
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Blinking Red written by Michael Allen and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 AmericaÆs new enemiesùstateless international terrorists. In the midst of the 2004 presidential election, Congress and the president remade the postûWorld War II national security infrastructure in less than five months, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and a National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Blinking Red illuminates the complicated history of the bureaucratic efforts to reform AmericaÆs national security after the intelligence failures of 9/11 and IraqÆs missing weapons of mass destruction, explaining how the NSC and Congress shaped the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks. Michael Allen asserts that the process of creating the DNI position and the NCTC is a case study in power politics and institutional reform. By bringing to light the legislative transactions and political wrangling during the reform of the intelligence community, Allen helps us understand why the effectiveness of these institutional changes is still in question.