Essays debate the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in national security, covering such topics as their use of torture on suspects, the way it gathers and analyzes intelligence information, and the future of the agency.

Bauder, Julia

Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

Kidhaven

United States, United States of America

September 28, 2007

PS, 2007

1 online resource (144 pages)
Offers a variety of perspectives-- eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper, and magazine accounts, to illuminate the CIA's role in national security
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-140) and index
The CIA : an overview / Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- The CIA tortures prisoners in the War on Terror / Jane Mayer -- The CIA kidnaps terrorism suspects and sends them to third countries to be tortured / Stephen Grey -- The CIA's treatment of terrorism suspects in the War on Terror is justified / Condoleezza Rice -- The CIA politicized evidence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq / James Risen -- The CIA did a poor job of gathering intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq / Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction -- The American intelligence system needs serious reform / Economist -- The CIA should change the way it analyzes intelligence / Gary J. Schmitt -- The CIA should reform its clandestine service / Reuel Marc Gerecht -- The CIA should implement modest reforms, not a massive overhaul / Bruce Berkowitz -- The CIA should be consolidated with other U.S. intelligence agencies / National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States -- The CIA should remain an independent agency / Richard A. Posner -- The CIA should be abolished / Chalmers Johnson
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2023-06-28