Espionage and Intelligence | Creating a Defense Department Intelligence Czar Could Bias Intelligence Gathering

About the author: Jason Vest, who writes on national security issues, is a contributing editor to the Nation.

As the civil liberties community endeavors to stem the tide of threats to the Constitution posed by [Attorney General] John Ashcroft’s Justice Department and new Department of Homeland Security, some in Washington policy-making circles watched with trepidation on November 13, 2002, as Congress gave Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld permission to create a new Under Secretariat for Intelligence at the Pentagon. According to some observers, not only does the move...

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