Online book discussion with Richard Clarke

This came together a little bit last minute, so I apologize for the late notice, but I'm extremely pleased to announce that Richard Clarke, former counter-terrorism coordinator for two presidential administrations and vocal critic of the Bush approach to security, will be hosting the discussion of my new book, Still Broken, this afternoon over at FireDogLake.com at 5 p.m.

The book recounts my time as an intelligence officer working for the Defense Intelligence Agency, essentially the spy arm of the Department of Defense, and explains how not only are the problems with intelligence analysis that led to things like 9/11 and the WMD debacle continuing, they're becoming institutionalized. Rewarding good news rather than accurate news is an issue that's becoming a permanent part of a broken intelligence process, and while I experienced that at the bottom of the process, Clarke saw how and why that kind of culture was created from the very top. He has been an insightful and courageous voice on terrorism, FISA and wiretapping issues, and Iraq, and I hope you'll head over to FireDogLake.com at 5 p.m. today to participate in the conversation about Still Broken.