Building a thinking service must be with the right people – Nana Attobrah Quaicoe writes

Part One: How Patronage Recruitment Hollows Out an Intelligence ServiceEvery conversation about intelligence reform eventually arrives at the same list. It’s either Legislation, Budget, Structure, Oversight, Doctrine or Technology. These are the visible levers; the ones that appear in white papers, get debated in academic forums, and feature in the reform proposals that land on ministers’ desks and mostly stay there.