America needs more spies
Six of America's most experienced practitioners argue here that current proposals to improve the effectiveness of America's security services fail to address the key issue: how to gather more and better intelligence
IN THE aftermath of September 2001, many groups have offered advice on how to prevent the next such attack. The six of us who have written this piece are unusual in that together we have more than 200 years' hands-on work in national-security affairs, intelligence, law enforcement, counter-terrorism, espionage, counter-intelligence and the legal issues affecting those disciplines.
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