Fool Me Twice ─ Intelligence Failure and Mass Casualty Terrorism

Selecting the first World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building bombing, the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and the US Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya as case studies, Copeland (political science, Geneva College) seeks to determine the causes of intelligence failure, focusing on leadership and policy failures, organizational and bureaucratic issues, problems with warning information, and analytical challenges. The findings from these four cases are then applied to analyzing intelligence failures regarding the September 11th, 2001 attacks and recommendations are drawn regarding the structure of the intelligence community, legal authorities, congressional accountability, and strategic intelligence. Martinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. Thomas Copeland is an assistant professor of Political Science at Geneva College. He earned his Master’s and Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. Copeland worked previously as Chief of Staff for the Government Services Division of LexisNexis, and as an open source intelligence trainer for LexisNexis, serving U.S. federal and state law enforcement and homeland security agencies, as well as law enforcement in Canada and the United Kingdom. He has also served as Admissions Director at the Institute of World Politics.Copeland has taught classes at the University of Pittsburgh and at Trinity College (Washington, DC), as well as training classes for the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts. He has published several articles in academic journals, and was the editor of a U.S. Army War College book on the information revolution and military strategy.