The Covert Color Line: The Radicalized Politics of Western State Intelligence (Kearns Oliver)(Paperback)

What if the biggest failures of intelligence are not the factual errors, but the inbuilt biases that shape what type of information is deemed useful?'--Lisa Stampnitzky, author of Disciplining Terror 'Ground-breaking ... Decodes declassified documents showing the racialized assumptions underlying the use and abuse of intelligence in contemporary Western politics. A must-read'--Elisabeth Schweiger, Lecturer, University of York 'Your jaw will drop and your heart will break. We urgently need this reckoning with the role of race-thinking in international politics. Lives depend on it'--Gargi Bhattacharyya, co-author of Empire's Endgame Repeated intelligence failures in Iraq, Libya, the Middle East, and North Africa have left many critics searching for a smoking gun. Amidst questions of who misread - or manipulated - the intel,
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