Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Nomination of Lieutenant General Michael V. Hayden, USAF, to be Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, First Session, 109th Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The Ghosts of Langley
Author: John Prados
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620970899
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
"The Ghosts of Langley offers a detail-rich, often relentless litany of CIA scandals and mini-scandals. . . [and a] prayer that the CIA learn from and publicly admit its mistakes, rather than perpetuate them in an atmosphere of denial and impunity." —The Washington Post From the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian," the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the agency's founding During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you . . . there's nobody I respect more, " hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could smite its enemies ever more forcefully. But while Trump was making these promises, behind the scenes the CIA was still reeling from blowback from the very tactics that Trump touted—including secret overseas prisons and torture—that it had resorted to a decade earlier during President George W. Bush's war on terror. Under the latest regime it seemed that the CIA was doomed to repeat its past failures rather than put its house in order. The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agency's current predicament to its founding and earlier years, telling the story of the agency through the eyes of key figures in CIA history, including some of its most troubling covert actions around the world. It reveals how the agency, over seven decades, has resisted government accountability, going rogue in a series of highly questionable ventures that reach their apotheosis with the secret overseas prisons and torture programs of the war on terror. Drawing on mountains of newly declassified documents, the celebrated historian of national intelligence John Prados throws fresh light on classic agency operations from Poland to Hungary, from Indonesia to Iran-Contra, and from the Bay of Pigs to Guantánamo Bay. The halls of Langley, Prados persuasively argues, echo with the footsteps of past spymasters, to the extent that it resembles a haunted house. Indeed, every day that the militarization of the CIA increases, the agency drifts further away from classic arts of espionage and intelligence analysis—and its original mission, while pushing dangerously beyond accountability. The Ghosts of Langley will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the next phase of American history—and the CIA's evolution—as its past informs its future and a president of impulsive character prods the agency toward new scandals and failures.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620970899
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
"The Ghosts of Langley offers a detail-rich, often relentless litany of CIA scandals and mini-scandals. . . [and a] prayer that the CIA learn from and publicly admit its mistakes, rather than perpetuate them in an atmosphere of denial and impunity." —The Washington Post From the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian," the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the agency's founding During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you . . . there's nobody I respect more, " hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could smite its enemies ever more forcefully. But while Trump was making these promises, behind the scenes the CIA was still reeling from blowback from the very tactics that Trump touted—including secret overseas prisons and torture—that it had resorted to a decade earlier during President George W. Bush's war on terror. Under the latest regime it seemed that the CIA was doomed to repeat its past failures rather than put its house in order. The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agency's current predicament to its founding and earlier years, telling the story of the agency through the eyes of key figures in CIA history, including some of its most troubling covert actions around the world. It reveals how the agency, over seven decades, has resisted government accountability, going rogue in a series of highly questionable ventures that reach their apotheosis with the secret overseas prisons and torture programs of the war on terror. Drawing on mountains of newly declassified documents, the celebrated historian of national intelligence John Prados throws fresh light on classic agency operations from Poland to Hungary, from Indonesia to Iran-Contra, and from the Bay of Pigs to Guantánamo Bay. The halls of Langley, Prados persuasively argues, echo with the footsteps of past spymasters, to the extent that it resembles a haunted house. Indeed, every day that the militarization of the CIA increases, the agency drifts further away from classic arts of espionage and intelligence analysis—and its original mission, while pushing dangerously beyond accountability. The Ghosts of Langley will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the next phase of American history—and the CIA's evolution—as its past informs its future and a president of impulsive character prods the agency toward new scandals and failures.
The Shadow Factory
Author: James Bamford
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385528396
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
James Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech ears on the American public. The Shadow Factory reconstructs how the NSA missed a chance to thwart the 9/11 hijackers and details how this mistake has led to a heightening of domestic surveillance. In disturbing detail, Bamford describes exactly how every American’s data is being mined and what is being done with it. Any reader who thinks America’s liberties are being protected by Congress will be shocked and appalled at what is revealed here.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385528396
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
James Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech ears on the American public. The Shadow Factory reconstructs how the NSA missed a chance to thwart the 9/11 hijackers and details how this mistake has led to a heightening of domestic surveillance. In disturbing detail, Bamford describes exactly how every American’s data is being mined and what is being done with it. Any reader who thinks America’s liberties are being protected by Congress will be shocked and appalled at what is revealed here.
Nomination of General Michael V. Hayden, USAF, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Nomination of General Michael V. Hayden, USAF, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency : hearing
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422322567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422322567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher:
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Category : Legislative calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
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Category : Legislative calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Outsourcing US Intelligence
Author: Damien Van Puyvelde
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474450245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In the 21st century, more than any other time, US agencies have relied on contractors to conduct core intelligence functions. This book charts the swell of intelligence outsourcing in the context of American political culture and considers what this means for the relationship between the state, its national security apparatus and accountability within a liberal democracy. Through analysis of a series of case studies, recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with national security experts in the public and private sectors, the book provides an in-depth and illuminating appraisal of the evolving accountability regime for intelligence contractors.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474450245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In the 21st century, more than any other time, US agencies have relied on contractors to conduct core intelligence functions. This book charts the swell of intelligence outsourcing in the context of American political culture and considers what this means for the relationship between the state, its national security apparatus and accountability within a liberal democracy. Through analysis of a series of case studies, recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with national security experts in the public and private sectors, the book provides an in-depth and illuminating appraisal of the evolving accountability regime for intelligence contractors.
109-1&2, Legislative Calendar, Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate, S. Prt. 109-84, January 2008
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description