POLITICIZING INTELLIGENCE
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Intelligence is useful only if it tells policymakers what they need to know, not what they want to hear. That distinction—between informing power and flattering it—is the oldest problem in the craft, and the U.S. built an apparatus of analytic standards, layered review, and ombudsmen to protect it. I served as a President’s Daily Brief (PDB) briefer to the vice president, in analytic leadership at the CIA, and as a National Security Council (NSC) director in both the Biden and second Trump administrations.
