ABSTRACT
The need to adjust US intelligence to address new, or newly salient, issues is one of the most commonly sounded themes in public commentary about intelligence in the United States. “The CIA” – or the entire US Intelligence Community – “needs to move away from a Cold War way of doing business!” has been voiced so often in the decade and a half since the end of the Cold War that it long ago became a cliché. The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, which was one of the greatest attitude-changing events in American history, boosted the frequency and volume of this kind of call.
