ABSTRACT
The American public has engaged in an unprecedented level of debate about the role and performance of the country’s intelligence services since 9/11. Never has the nation undertaken to examine the missions and organization of intelligence in the remarkably open manner witnessed since then. Not since the late 1940s, at the dawn of the Cold War, has the U.S. government attempted to critique and reorganize its secret services in such a comprehensive fashion, and that earlier reorganization occurred without any real public scrutiny. Although the media has delivered myriad revelations about the inner workings of the intelligence community, the plethora of detail now in the public domain has done little to clarify what is wrong with intelligence, American style.
