Intelligence Failures: An Organizational Economics Perspective
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Intelligence Failures: An Organizational Economics Perspective
T wo recent failures of the U.S. intelligence system have led to the creation of high-level investigative commissions. The failure to prevent the terrorist attacks of 9/11 prompted the creation of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (2004), hereafter called the 9/11 Commission, and the mistaken belief that Saddam Hussein had retained weapons of mass destruction p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Perspectives
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0895-3309
DOI: 10.1257/089533005775196723