Countering Terrorism Blurred Focus, Halting Steps

by Posner, Richard A.

• ISBN13: 9780742558830
• ISBN10: 0742558835
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-20
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this third book of a series on intelligence reform, Judge Richard A. Posner evaluates the measures that have been taken in the last two years to implement the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004, which decreed a wholesale reorganization of the intelligence system. Countering Terrorism also addresses broader issues in the struggle against terrorism, such as the failure of criminal law enforcement and the difficulty of devising criteria for allocating counterterrorist funds.

Author Biography

Richard A. Posner is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.

Table of Contents

Thinking in probabilities	p. 1
The role of intelligence
The road from 9/11; benchmarking the intelligence reorganization	p. 17
Design problems	p. 33
Successes and failures	p. 71
The three-cultures problem	p. 105
The continuing crisis in domestic intelligence	p. 135
How else to counter terrorism?
The judicialization of counterterrorism	p. 171
Counterterrorism strategy and structure; an ounce of prevention?	p. 203
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