Please engage with at least one question, or feel free to make up your own question and engage with it: 1. Why is important for us to understand the role of policy makers versus the role of the...

Please engage with at least one question, or feel free to make up your own question and engage with it:

1. Why is important for us to understand the role of policy makers versus the role of the intelligence community? When might the lines between the two blur, and how does their relationship play into power dynamics within the national security structure?

2. In order to eliminate some of the ambiguities and uncertainties that the intelligence community often faces with policy makers, and to avoid situations like Hurricane Katrina (reaction time on policy making), what are some ways we could think about that could allow for trust and better communication among these groups?

3.The Jervis article says that “It is the very need to claim that intelligence and policy are in close harmony that produces conflict between them” (bottom of page 187). What does this mean? How is this quotation in conversation with the Lowenthal chapter this week?