May 13
The CIA in the Modern Era
| We'll end the class with a free-wheeling discussion on the CIA's future--and the agency's performance before and after the WTC attacks. |
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The CIA attempts to predict Afghanistan's future (1989) |
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Melvin Goodman, "Ending the CIA's Cold War Legacy" (1997) |
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Edward Shirley, "Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?" (1998) |
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Bobby Inman places the CIA's shortcomings in a historical context |
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Thomas Henriksen criticizes the "blowback myth," while Ken Silverstein is less sure |
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Judge for yourself: Caspar Weinberger from the time |
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Helle Bering describes the WTC attacks as an intelligence failure by the CIA |
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David Corn--from a different ideological perspective--reaches the same conclusion |
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New York Times on the missed intelligence by the CIA |
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Add The Economist to the CIA's critics in the battle against terror |
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Andrew Roberts contends that "political correctness" explained the CIA's lack of diligence |
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Loch Johnson points to the agency's dearth of . . . professors! |
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Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA operative, predicted that the CIA would not stop bin Laden |
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Seymour Hersh reports on the CIA's difficulties in the post-Cold War era |
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Timothy Noah wonders at Hersh's change of heart on the CIA |
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Jason Zengerle wonders if the US intelligence apparatus can handle the war on terror |
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The US Army--lessons of the Soviet war in Afghanistan |