Espionage and Intelligence | The United States Should Reform Its Intelligence- Gathering Methods

About the authors: John M. Deutch, former director of central intelligence, is a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jeffrey H. Smith, former Central Intelligence Agency general counsel, is a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm.

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon [on September 11, 2001], understandably provoked two reactions—that this was the worst intelligence failure in recent U.S. history and that U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis must be vastly improved. Many proposals have been put forward to...

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