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Article Excerpt
Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security Richard K. Betts New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, 264 pp.
After the shocking intelligence failure of September 11 and the faulty estimate of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, many observers are asking why such egregious mistakes happened, and what can be done to prevent repeat performances. Washington has never been short on proposed intelligence reforms. Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed shuttering the CIA altogether while Gary Schmitt advocated giving Congress more raw intelligence. These and other proposals have varied a great deal in quality and feasibility.
Richard K. Betts, professor at Columbia University and one of the best-informed pathologists of the intelligence process, has offered a book that diagnoses the enemies of intelligence: "outside enemies," or outright adversaries who are attempting to defeat the nation's defenses; "innocent enemies," or feckless or incapable American bureaucrats; and, most frequently overlooked, "inherent enemies," which Betts describes as "an amorphous and impersonal group...
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