Listen to CFR experts Daniel B. Prieto and Matthew C. Waxman discuss the implications of President Obama’s decision to close the Guantánamo prison camp and reverse the Bush Administration's policies on detention and interrogation.
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The torture debate is critical not only because it gets us to the core of our values, but because the danger to American cities is not from tanks and armies, but from individuals and their intentions.
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Disputes over President-elect Barack Obama's pick to head the CIA may foretell a deeper struggle over how the administration can best reform America's intelligence-gathering bureaucracy.
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Retired Adm. Dennis C. Blair, President Obama's director of national intelligence, is a former commander of the U.S. Pacific Command with long military experience.
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Leslie H. Gelb discusses the Obama Administration's selection of Leon Panetta as CIA Director.
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Despite its past failings, the intelligence community must be encouraged to craft critical assessments without fear of political interference, writes CFR Intelligence Fellow Frank Procida.
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In Afghanistan, in Kashmir, and elsewhere, a long-standing battle for influence is raging between India's primary espionage agency, the shadowy Research and Analysis Wing, and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
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A combination of intellectual rigor, technical sophistication, hard work, and intelligence gathering brought China into the world's nuclear club in record-shattering time.
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Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) and Representative Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), two leaders in the drafting and passage of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, discuss national security and the state of the intelligence community.
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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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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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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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The intelligence community's record is better than people think — and most reform proposals are worse.
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What effect would the fall of the Assad regime have on U.S. policy towards Syria?
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