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  • Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence

  • Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
  • By: Joshua Rovner
  • Narrated by: Jay Glick
  • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence

By: Joshua Rovner
Narrated by: Jay Glick
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What is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misuse) intelligence estimates? When do intelligence policy relations work best? How do intelligence policy failures influence threat assessment, military strategy, and foreign policy? These questions are at the heart of recent national security controversies, including the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq. In both cases, the relationship between intelligence and policy broke down - with disastrous consequences.

In Fixing the Facts, Joshua Rovner explores the complex interaction between intelligence and policy and shines a spotlight on the problem of politicization. Major episodes in the history of American foreign policy have been closely tied to the manipulation of intelligence estimates. Rovner describes how the Johnson administration dealt with the intelligence community during the Vietnam War; how President Nixon and President Ford politicized estimates on the Soviet Union; and how pressure from the George W. Bush administration contributed to flawed intelligence on Iraq. He also compares the US case with the British experience between 1998 and 2003, and demonstrates that high-profile government inquiries in both countries were fundamentally wrong about what happened before the war.

Published by Cornell University Press.

"A model of intelligent, balanced, and policy-relevant scholarship." - Richard K. Betts, director, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University

"No interested reader or intelligence professional can afford to miss Fixing the Facts." - John Prados, author of How the Cold War Ended

"Essential reading for theorists, historians, and the intelligence and policy communities." - Jack S. Levy, Rutgers University

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