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September 11 remembered
9 September 2011
In this heart-rending mini documentary, resident and visiting experts from the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney reflect on their personal experience of the terrorist attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001. Produced by Will Turner. Watch Online
Targeted killings
17 August 2010
Australia Network Newsline
This story examines the use of executive power by presidential administrations to carry out assassinations apart from any legal due process. Featuring in this story is intelligence expert Amy Zegart who is in Australia as a visitor of the US Studies Centre. Watch Online
US intelligence since 9/11 and Wikileaks
12 August 2010
Amy Zegart is a recognised voice on intelligence reform in the US. In 1999 she wrote Flawed By Design, a book examining the weaknesses in America's national security agencies. Her award winning 2007 work Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI and the Origins of 9/11 was the culmination of five years of research. In this interview Zegart notes that while there have been some improvements since 9/11, reform of the US intelligence community is stalling in important areas. Zegart also discusses the recent Wikileaks controversy and says that the news from it is not all bad for America's national security system.
US defence spending and counter-terrorism
10 August 2010
Sky News
In this interview, acclaimed author of two books examining organisational weakness in US intelligence agencies, Amy Zegart discusses how spending cuts on defence could affect America's national security. Amy Zegart is in Australia as a visitor of the US Studies Centre. Watch Online
'Three tiered' terrorist threat to the US
10 August 2010
ABC2 News Breakfast
In this interview, University of California intelligence specialist Amy Zegart discusses the three tiered terrorist threat facing America today. Zegart says this consists of 'Al-Qaida central', regional terrorist cells and home-grown radicalisation in the US and abroad. Watch Online
Guantanamo mess yet to be sorted
10 August 2010
SBS World News Australia
US Studies Centre visitor Amy Zegart, author of two books examining the organisational weaknesses of the US intelligence community, says that the set of procedures and systems set up at Guantanamo Bay after the September 11 terrorist attacks were made "on the fly" and that the situation is far from resolved. Watch Online
Holes in America's intelligence defences
10 August 2010
ABC News PM with Mark Colvin
Acclaimed intelligence expert Amy Zegart says the CIA is better at cooperating with the Pentagon on operations and getting better at analysis. However, Zegart notes the US director of national intelligence who's supposed to oversee the entire intelligence establishment is "embattled at best and hopelessly weak at worst". Listen Online
9/11 counter-terrorism lessons 'being forgotten'
9 August 2010
ABC Lateline
America's national security agencies continue to have organisational weaknesses that were exposed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks according to US intelligence expert Amy Zegart. Amy Zegart is a visitor of the US Studies Centre. Watch Online
