Remaking domestic intelligence / by Richard A. Posner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Posner, Richard A.

Series:

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 541.

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 541

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--United States.

Intelligence service.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 p.)

Edition:

First printing Hoover Classics edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author reveals the dangerous weaknesses undermining domestic intelligence in the United States and tells why a new national security service should not be part of the FBI. He explains the need for a new domestic intelligence agency, modeled on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and lodged in the Department of Homeland Security.

Contents:

The problem

Introduction. The FBI's failures. the failures are rooted in structure. The WMD Commission's critique

The "agency within an agency" solution

A better solution

Coordination and command. A new agency. Siting the new agency: the DHS option. Finding a role, and relation to other agencies. Getting started. Civil liberties

Conclusion

Appendix: mission statement of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Index.

Notes:

Reissue of the 2005 ed.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817946838

0817946837

9780817946821

0817946829

9780817946883

0817946888

OCLC:

865652960