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The Center for Strategic and International Studies announced today the launch of a Task Force to explore the implications and applications of emerging technologies for the U.S. intelligence community. The Task Force will be led by Stephanie O’Sullivan, a former Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Avril Haines, a former…

On February 25, 2020, ISP Senior Fellow Paul Pope joined the War on the Rocks’ WarCast to discuss the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the importance of precision in intelligence briefings, and how consumers of intelligence in the U.S. Government should welcome objective information and assessments. Click HERE…

The LBJ School’s student-run Baines Report recently published an interview with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) Principal Executive Andrew Hallman. The Intelligence Studies Project hosted Andrew Hallman for a public talk on “U.S. Intelligence: New Challenges and Opportunities” in December 2019. During his visit, Taryn Woody, a…

The ISP Director was quoted in a recent comment by Carla Robbins in The American Interest. The article raises concerns over the Justice Department’s unconventional investigation into IC assessments of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The author recommends urgent action by IC leaders to counter the politicization of intelligence…

Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA senior analyst who also held positions with the National Security Council (NSC) and the National Intelligence Council (NIC), answered questions from Foreign Affairs about her journey to a career in intelligence. To read the full article, click HERE.

Students interested in applying for U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) internships and full-time positions may be interested in this recent article by Lindy Kyzer of Government Executive. The article describes hiring challenges experienced by the 17 IC agencies, who often have their own standards and security clearance processes. The Office of the…

ISP Senior Fellow J. Paul Pope recently reviewed David P. Oakley’s “Subordinating Intelligence: The DoD/CIA Post-Cold War Relationship” in the Joint Forces Quarterly. Click HERE to read the review.

ISP Director Steve Slick participated in a recent on-line roundtable discussion of “Civil-Intelligence Relations” organized by the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The roundtable was sponsored by the FPRI’s Program on National Security and included the Institute’s President-elect, Carol Rollie Flynn.

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center, sits down with Professor Paul Pope and Dr. Kiril Avramov of the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas and Dr. Calder Walton, assistant director of the Applied History Program at Harvard’s Kennedy…

In an Intelligence Studies Essay on the Lawfare national security site, LBJ School alumnus and former Brumley Graduate Fellow Eric Manpearl and ISP Director Steve Slick call for a reappraisal of Obama-era policies that afford extraordinary privacy protections to incidentally collected data on foreign nationals.