The Future of Intelligence.

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  • Author(s): Laqueur, Walter
  • Source:
    Society. Jan/Feb98, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p301-311. 11p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      INTELLIGENCE service; OFFICIAL secrets; LEAKS (Disclosure of information); FREEDOM of information
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED StatesReport Available
    • Abstract:
      This article discusses the future of the intelligence community in the U.S. Intelligence control reforms proposed in the 1970s took a number of assumptions more or less for granted. These assumptions were: that intelligence could function in a democratic society under the supervision of outside officials and in the limelight of the media; that while regrettable, the betrayal of secrets by leaking was part of an unofficial system of checks and balances; that the right to know usually took precedence over the need for secrecy; that there was no fundamental clash between secrecy and the right to know; and that it was almost always more important to protect the citizen against intelligence abuses than to shield intelligence against its adversaries.