Spying blind the cia the fbi and the origins of 9 11 amazonde zegart amy b fremdsprachige bucher. Zegart reveals how longstanding organizational weaknesses left unaddressed during the 1990s prevented the cia and fbi from capitalizing on twenty three opportunities to disrupt the september 11 plot spying blind is a sobering account of why two of americas most important intelligence agencies failed to adjust to new threats after the cold war and why they are unlikely to adapt in the future. In this pathbreaking book amy zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded september 11 until now those failures have been attributed largely to. In this pathbreaking book amy zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded september 11 until now those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes but zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable zegart argues that after the cold war ended the cia and fbi failed to adapt to the rise of terrorism she makes the case by conducting painstaking analysis of more than three hundred intelligence . Download citation spying blind the cia the fbi and the origins of 9 11 in this pathbreaking book amy zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that