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April 30, 2008
Essential Documents
Report
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March 19, 2008
Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis; Chairman of the National Intelligence Council interviewed by Greg Bruno, Staff Writer
Interview
Thomas Fingar, who leads the agency that produced the most recent Iran National Intelligence Estimate, says conclusions about Tehran’s weapons program are sound, but the report’s delivery could have been framed differently.
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March 18, 2008
| Speaker: | Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council |
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| Presider: | Joseph J. Helman, National Intelligence Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
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March 18, 2008
| Speaker: | Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and Chairman, National Intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
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| Presider: | Joseph J. Helman, National Intelligence Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
Video
Watch Dr. Thomas Fingar discuss controversial national intelligence estimates on Iran and Iraq, changes in intelligence analysis, and new tools available to analysts.
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March 18, 2008
| Speaker: | Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and Chairman, National Intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
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| Presider: | Joseph J. Helman, National Intelligence Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to Dr. Thomas Fingar discuss controversial national intelligence estimates on Iran and Iraq, changes in intelligence analysis, and new tools available to analysts.
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September 2007
Essential Documents
Report
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March/April 2008
| Author: | Paul R. Pillar |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The intelligence community's record is better than people think — and most reform proposals are worse.
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February 27, 2008
| Author: | Greg Bruno, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
Foreign governments, non-state actors, and criminal networks are increasingly targeting the computerized infrastructures of Western powers, leading some experts to predict a new era of cyber-based warfare.
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February 27, 2008
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Daily Analysis
The government’s quest to use new technology to track terrorist threats is raising fresh concerns about privacy and free speech.
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Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
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In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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