Ep. 36 When Intelligence and Policy Collide—The Cost of Public Friction and What It Signals

In this episode, Sue and Eric discuss the recently released Intelligence Community Annual Threat Assessment and the open hearings before Congress that put it through its paces. Against a backdrop of differing views of presidential policy decisions, they explain the purpose of the threat assessment as representing the best analytic judgment of the IC and as a window into whether our system can still handle uncomfortable truths. When intelligence and policy blur, both suffer. The bulk of the ep...