Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1501700731 ISBN13: 9781501700736 Release Date: September 2015 Publisher: Cornell University Press Length: 280 Pages Weight: 1.05 lbs. Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1" Age Range: 18 years and up Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher What is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misuse) intelligence estimates? When do intelligence-policy relations work best? How do intelligence-policy failures influence threat assessment, military strategy, and foreign policy? These questions are at the heart of recent national security controversies, including the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq. In both cases the relationship between intelligence and policy broke down--with disastrous consequences.In Fixing the Facts, Joshua Rovner explores the complex interaction between intelligence and policy and shines a spotlight on the problem of politicization. Major episodes in the history of Ameri