Americans still believe in intelligence community
It’s been six months since I’ve appeared in these pages. That gap hasn’t been about a boycott or a contract dispute. Actually, The Washington Times has been rather generous, giving me that time to finish a book, get it cleared through the intelligence community review process and then endure an aggressive countrywide book tour organized by my publisher, Penguin.
For a career government guy, that was literally quite a trip. And I’d like to share a few thoughts about it before launching in later follow-on columns into the host of intelligence issues still out there.
The book was called “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror,” and I billed it as a memoir of my 10 years at the national level of American intelligence, my time at the National Security Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and at the Central Intelligence Agency. I didn’t mean it to be vile or vindictive, but it wasn’t very apologetic either.
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