http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/3094/peter-gruskin Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:11:53 -0400 Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:11:53 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1254/the-public-spheres-private-intelligence By Peter Gruskin - With attacks abounding in the various theatres of war abroad and even domestically, the U.S. government needed a backup security force as well as support for high-technology products that only the private sector could provide. Many private citizens, some of whom had left the intelligence community years before, were already “cleared,” and the political incentives were already in place to increase funding for non-governmental assistance to classified work. It was an opportunity to broaden the abilities of various agencies—technical and human in their needs—to make American... Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1254/the-public-spheres-private-intelligence