Summer School at FPRI

What’s Wrong with our Intelligence, and How Can We Make It Right?

Richard Immerman and Edward Turzanski

July 21, 2009 / Philadelphia

Richard H. Immerman is professor of history and the Marvin Wachman Director of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University. He served as Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic Integrity and Standards and Analytic Ombudsman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from Sept. 2007-Dec. 2008. In this capacity he was responsible for ensuring that all finished intelligence products are timely, objective, independent of political considerations, based upon all sources of available intelligence, and employ proper analytic tradecraft. Among Immerman’s publications are The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention (1981); John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War (1990); Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy for National Security (1998), coauthored with Robert R. Bowie; and John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy (1998). He was a co-author of The Central Intelligence Agency: Security under Scrutiny (2006).

Edward A. Turzanski, a Senior Fellow in FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Homeland Security, is a national security analyst at La Salle University, where he is Counsel to the President. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Justice Anti-Terror Advisory Committee for Region III and the DHS Port Security Committee for the Port of Philadelphia. Prior to his work at La Salle, he served with the U.S. government in the field of intelligence throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Mr. Turzanski appears frequently on television and radio including Fox News Network, CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio in Wisconsin and New Hampshire, Canadian Broadcast Corporation news, Turkish National Television from Istanbul, South African National radio, Australian National Radio, WLS in Chicago, KAIRO in Seattle, and KERN in Bakersfield, California. He is also an on-air National Security Analyst for ABC affiliate WPVT TV6 and The Dom Giordano show on WPHT 1210AM in Philadelphia, and Comcast CN8 Network.

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