TY - BOOK AU - Betts, Richard K. TI - Enemies of intelligence: knowledge and power in American national security SN - 9780231138895 U1 - 327.127BET PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Intelligence service -- United States N1 - Includes index N2 - The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the false assessment of Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal were terrible reminders that good information is essential to national security. These failures convinced the American public that their intelligence system was broken and prompted a radical reorganization of agencies and personnel, but as Richard K. Betts argues in this book, critics and politicians have severely underestimated the obstacles to true reform ER -