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Gregory F. Treverton

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Moving Targets

May 1, 2004 Terrorists are everything the Soviet Union was not, and intelligence agencies are struggling to get a bead on them. In a small room in a super-secure building, a young intelligence analyst surrounded by a bank of computers practices a primitive sort of information sharing. He rolls in an office chair ...

The State of Federal Management

January 1, 2004 Under pressure from Congress, political leaders and independent examiners, managers are more focused on results than ever. t a hearing on Capitol Hill in 1968, a member of Congress summarized then-Postmaster General Lawrence O'Brien's managerial circumstances as "no control over your workload . . . no control over wages and ...

Time to Spy in America

September 1, 2003 The need for information extends beyond following individuals. It requires gathering foreign intelligence domestically. t is time to contemplate creating a separate domestic intelligence agency with independent oversight. The arguments for a separate domestic intelligence agency are three-capacity, need and accountability. In terms of capacity, the FBI is likely to ...

Set Up To Fail

September 1, 2002 It's no surprise that the FBI and CIA don't cooperate. We haven't wanted them to - until now. s the joint House-Senate intelligence committee grinds through its investigation of why intelligence failed before Sept.11, it should not be surprising that cooperation between the CIA and the FBI was ragged at ...

Intelligence Crisis

November 1, 2001 Old sources and methods must be reshaped to deal with a host of new threats, especially a new kind of terrorism. he old and new worlds of intelligence met on Sept. 11 when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The old world was dominated by a single ...