Hoover Institution Press: Remaking Domestic Intelligence by Richard A. Posner.STANFORD, Calif. -- The author of Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) follows up that analysis with an equally compelling argument for reforming the FBI. In the monograph, Remaking Domestic Intelligence (Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President Press, 2005), Richard Posner Richard Allen Posner (born January 11, 1939, in New York City) is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is one of the most influential living legal theorists and a major voice in the law and economics movement, which he helped start develops the case for reform and makes concrete proposals to improve the way in which the United States responds to outside threats. "The danger of terrorist acts committed on the soil of the United States has not abated despite strenuous efforts to improve homeland security," states Posner in the opening of the monograph. He goes on to evaluate the performance of the FBI leading up to and following 9/11 and the recommendations of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or before outlining his views on preventing terrorist attacks in this country. His main proposal is to develop a domestic intelligence agency, modeled on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Noun 1. Canadian Security Intelligence Service - Canada's main foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government CSIS , which would be separate from the FBI and would have no authority to engage in law enforcement but would instead focus on gathering information with which to identify terrorists. Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School The University of Chicago Law School, having recently celebrated its centennial in the 2002-2003 school year, has established itself as a high profile part of the University of Chicago. . He has authored hundreds of articles and nearly four dozen books on matters of public policy, such as Catastrophe: Risk and Response (2004); Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts (2001); and An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. , and Trial of President Clinton (1999). "Remaking Domestic Intelligence" by Richard A. Posner ISBN: 08179-4682-9 $10.00 104 pages August 2005 |
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