Remaking Domestic Intelligence (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: September 16, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780817946821
Subjects: United States; Political Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Politics/International Relations; Forensic Science; Intelligence service; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Description: "Domestic intelligence in the United States today is undermanned, uncoordinated, technologically challenged, and dominated by an agency-the FBI-that is structurally unsuited to play the central role in national security intelligence. Despite the importance of domestic intelligence to national security, it is the weakest link in the U.S. intelligence system. In Remaking Domestic Intelligence, Richard A. Posner explains the dangerous weaknesses undermining our domestic intelligence and offers a solution: the creation of a domestic intelligence agency that would be separate from the FBI and have no law enforcement authority or responsibility.".

"He shows why the FBI, because its primary activity is law enforcement, is not the solution to the problem of domestic intelligence and how a new agency, lodged in the Department of Homeland Security, would, lacking a law enforcement function, avoid the deep tension between criminal investigation and national security intelligence that plagues the FBI-and might even allay concerns that domestic intelligence endangers civil liberties. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.