But among those he liked and helped are some of the leading scholars of intelligence history, including John Ranelagh, Wesley Wark, Christopher Andrew, David Kahn and Timothy Naftali.
Like the economists who tell us the Great Recession is over when unemployment is nearly 10percenttheseese "defense" and "intelligence" scholars willfully ignore data that doesn't neatly fit into their models, such as the violence, terror, and devastation the policies they advocate inflict on the lives of the real people who reside in those countries.
Harvard's president, Drew Gilpin Faust, said Professor Minow was a well-respected teacher, mentor and colleague and "scholar of remarkable intelligence, imagination and scope".
Amy Zegart, an intelligence scholar at Stanford, said, "I can't think of anyone else who's been beaten up by so many different factions, over so many different issues, in such a short period of time".
Steven Aftergood, a scholar of the intelligence agencies with the Federation of American Scientists, suggested that the agency might need to study polygraph effects on its agents; evaluate their performance under conditions of stress; or study physiological indicators of deception.
I'm a suspense novelist who was trained as an intelligence scholar, so naturally my ears pricked up.
"There's something tragic about this report," said Amy Zegart, an intelligence scholar at Stanford.
"There are a lot of ethical questions here about whether we know who the targets are," said Loch Johnson, an intelligence scholar at the University of Georgia and a former congressional aide.
Some scholars have applied artificial intelligence technology in heterogeneous networks and improved the accuracy and efficiency of data mining.
Some scholars also highlight that intelligence alone does not adequately explain achievement but is only one among many factors affecting success and failure.
