The Foreign Service Journal, November 2004

gence budget, and create a Civil Liberties Board that would ensure the protection of privacy and civil lib- erties. The Senate bill met resistance from House Republicans, who intro- duced their own legislation in an attempt to limit the NID’s power and preserve the Pentagon’s influence. Though both bills have passed, they are so different that lawmakers fear they may be impossible to reconcile. The issue of intelligence reform is quite complicated and, at times, can seem overwhelming. Fortunately, there are several Web sites dedicated to the study and analysis of the intelli- gence community. Here is a sampling of what the Web has to offer: http://www.fas.org/irp/index. html The Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program presents a helpful mix of official and unofficial resources on intelligence. Particularly interesting is its collection of “hot documents.” http://www.intelforum.org The Intelligence Forum is the place to go for links to all things relat- ed to the study of intelligence, from government Web sites to academic papers and books. http://frode.home.cern.ch/frod e/crypto/INS.html “Intelligence and National Securi- ty” offers an index of articles related to intelligence and national security. http://www.cia.gov/csi The CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence “seeks to promote study, debate and understanding of the role of intelligence in American society.” http://ww.dia.mil Official Web site of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense’s intelligence branch. http://www.state.gov/inr The Bureau of Intelligence and Research is the Department of State’s intelligence arm.  —David Coddon, Editorial Intern C Y B E R N O T E S u 12 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 4 Site of the Month: www.aldaily.com Literary aficionados and amateur scholars of the humanities will find Arts & Letters Daily ( www.aldaily.com ) to be an invaluable source of highbrow direc- tion for the latest in literature, book reviews, essays and opinion. The Web site, begun in 1998 by Denis Dutton, is updated six days a week with new links to arti- cles on language, philosophy, culture, history and more. Dutton, a philosophy professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and his editorial partner Tran Huu Dung, an eco- nomics professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, offer pithy com- ments and quick links for their largely academic readership to some of the day’s most fascinating bits of controversy, discussion and creativity. On the left column of the page are links to newspapers, journals, columnists, book reviews, real-time radio feeds, popular blogs and other interesting diver- sions. The site is designed as a one-stop source for a whetting of one’s intellec- tual palate. Its Latin motto, “Veritas Odit Moras” (Truth Hates Delay), suggests the fast-paced nature of today’s pursuit of knowledge. Arts & Letters Daily has been owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education since 2002. The Web site now attracts more than two million hits per month and is growing steadily. Laid out in the style of an 18th-century broadsheet newspa- per, Arts & Letters Daily serves as a fine springboard for tracking the latest in academic insight, cultural debate and literary excellence. — Kris Lofgren, Editorial Intern