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GOV 420 - Secrets, Spies and Satellites

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This seminar will highlight some of the major debates about the role, practices, and problems of national intelligence and explore the issues facing the U.S. intelligence community in the 21st century. Topics will include the role intelligence plays in support of policymaking, the sources of past intelligence “failures,” and the questions of congressional oversight and intelligence reform.
Credits: 1

Course Attribute(s):
SOCS Gen Ed: Social Science Req


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