Visiting professor at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy to highlight pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures
07 February 2002
By
Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations
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James
Bamford, visiting professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy
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Berkeley
- James Bamford, an authority on the nation's top security agency and
a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, will
speak on campus Monday, Feb. 11, about intelligence failures that contributed
to the Sept. 11 attack on the United States. The talk is open to the
public.
Bamford,
the author of best sellers about the National Security Agency, will
discuss why the nation lost its ability to eavesdrop on Osama Bin Laden
and why it couldn't keep track of the Al-Qaida leader. Other questions
he will address include why the CIA has never been able to penetrate
Al-Qaida, and how prepared the U.S. intelligence community is to fight
today's war on terrorism.
His lecture will
take place from 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. in the Sibley Auditorium of the Bechtel
Center on the campus's northeast side.
Bamford is teaching
a course at UC Berkeley's Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy
this spring about information technology, national security and public
policy.
He also is working
on a book on the subject and is the author of "The Puzzle Palace" (1982)
and "Body of Secrets," (2001) two national bestsellers about the National
Security Agency, the country's largest and most secret intelligence
agency.
Bamford is an expert
on information technology, national security and public policy. He was
a Washington investigative producer for ABC's "World News Tonight with
Peter Jennings" in Washington, D.C., for nine years. He has written
investigative cover stories for The New York Times Magazine, Washington
Post Magazine, and Los Angeles Times Magazine.
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