What are the human elements that can complicate intelligence reform? Can you find past examples that support your position from past accounts in a journal article or newspaper?

• Textbook: Chapters 13, 14
• Lecture 1, 2
• Link (website): Church Committee Reports Archive
• Link (website): The CIA’s Family Jewels
• Link (website): Spying in a transparent world, ethics, and intelligence in the 21st century
• Link (website): The Operation that killed Bin Laden
• Link (website): U.S. National Intelligence: An Overview
• Link (PDF): The 9/11 Commission Report (Chapter 13)
• Link (PDF): National strategy for information sharing and safeguarding
• Link (website): The WMD Commission Report
• Link (website): ‘Curveball’: I Lied about WMD to Hasten Iraq War
• Link (PDF): The Worldwide Threat Assessment 

Introduction
Efforts to improve, alter, or reorganize the intelligence community are as old as the community itself. The use of the word “reform” remains problematic in that it can imply that something that needs fixing, as opposed to simply being improved. (Lowenthal, 2017) 

Initial Post
What are the human elements that can complicate intelligence reform? Can you find past examples that support your position from past accounts in a journal article or newspaper? You may also find some useful information in the resources section above. 

Secondary Posts
Read postings provided by your instructor or fellow students. Read and respond to the conclusions drawn by your classmates. Remember to read the feedback to your own major postings and reply throughout the week. 

Writing Requirements

• In addition to one initial post, respond to at least two peers.
• Initial Post Length: minimum of 250 words
• Secondary Post Length: minimum of 200 words per post
• Using APA format, provide at least one citation with corresponding references page and use appropriate in-text citation(s) referring to the academic concept for the initial post.