Thomas Barnett & Stansfield Turner

Every president needs a reliable director of central intelligence. The national security depends on it. But as the new book Burn Before Reading by former CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner shows, the relationship between a president and his DCI is often strained, contentious, and even downright hostile. We'll talk with Admiral Turner in a few minutes. But first, Thomas Barnett, whose 2004 book The Pentagon's New Map has become required reading inside the Beltway. His followup book, called Blueprint for Action,