The Assault on Intelligence by Michael V Hayden

The Assault on Intelligence by Michael V Hayden

A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more important

In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile, the world order is teetering on the brink. North Korea is on the verge of having a nuclear weapon that could reach all of the United States, Russians have mastered a new form of information warfare that undercuts democracy, and the role of China in the global community remains unclear. There will always be value to experience and expertise, devotion to facts, humility in the face of complexity, and a respect for ideas, but in this moment they seem more important, and more endangered, than they've ever been. American Intelligence--the ultimate truth teller--has a responsibility in a post-truth world beyond merely warning of external dangers, and in The Assault on Intelligence, General Michael Hayden takes up that urgent work with profound passion, insight and authority.

It is a sobering vision. The American intelligence community is more at risk than is commonly understood, for every good reason. Civil war or societal collapse is not necessarily imminent or inevitable, but our democracy's core structures, processes, and attitudes are under great stress. Many of the premises on which we have based our understanding of governance are now challenged, eroded, or simply gone. And we have a President in office who responds to overwhelming evidence from the intelligence community that the Russians are, by all acceptable standards of cyber conflict, in a state of outright war against us, not by leading a strong response, but by shooting the messenger.

There are fundamental changes afoot in the world and in this country. The Assault on Intelligence shows us what they are, reveals how crippled we've become in our capacity to address them, and points toward a series of effective responses. Because when we lose our intelligence, literally and figuratively, democracy dies.

Former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Hayden is a retired four-star general in the United States Air Force. He is currently a principal of the Chertoff Group, a security consulting firm created by Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of Homeland Security. Hayden is also the founder of George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government's Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security. He is the author of The Attack on Intelligence and the New York Times bestseller Playing to the Edge.

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ISBN 13	9780525558583
ISBN 10	0525558586
Title	The Assault on Intelligence
Author	Michael V Hayden
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2018-05-01
Number of pages	304
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