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Title: Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence
Subtitle: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
Author: Joshua Rovner
Narrator: Jay Glick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-28-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

Publisher's Summary:
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

Members Reviews:
Politicization of Intelligence
The author presents several cases that explain his model, but offers no cases in non-democracies where politicization of intelligence can occur. Additional analyses should be done for autocratic and hybrid regimes on intelligence-policy relations function.

It Takes Two: Strategic Intelligence and National Security Policy
In the U.S., the relationship between strategic intelligence and the formulation of national security policies has been to say the least complex and often confusing. This book provides what has long been needed, an objective and scholarly review of this relationship.
Rovner provides an excellent theoretical background to guide his examination of specific case histories that he has chosen to illustrate the relationships between strategic intelligence and policy. Ideally intelligence analysts should be able to operate without interference to produce strategic intelligence reports that are honest, objective, and supported by the best information available. Again ideally policy makers should be free to challenge such reports. Finally both analysts and policymakers should be able to hold rational discussions over differences in interpretation and conclusions in which the supporting evidence is considered objectively.