Confronting Enemy Within:Security Intelligence Police & Co: Security Intelligence, the Police, and Counterterrorism in Four Democracies - Softcover

RAND Corporation, RAND

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833035134 ISBN 13: 9780833035134

Verlag: RAND Corporation, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, critics have charged that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), while qualified to investigate terrorist incidents after the fact, is not well equipped to adequately gather and assess information to prevent attacks. More intrinsically, many believe that, given a predominant and deeply rooted law enforcement and prosecutorial culture, the bureau may not be able - or, in fact, even willing - to change operational focus toward dedicated counterterrorism intelligence gathering and analysis. To better inform debate, researchers at the RAND Corporation analyzed the domestic security services of four allied countries - the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Australia. In each of the cases, the authors consider the organization's basic structure, its main threats, its relationship with the police, and the oversight and accountability each has with its respective government. They then weigh both the positive and negative aspects of the systems. Overall, the authors find the case studies useful as a benchmark to guide developments should a decision be made to establish a similar type of agency in the United States.

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William Rosenau is a political scientist at RAND's Washington Office and an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program, Georgetown University.

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Reviews four countries' domestic intelligence services to inform debate concerning the advantages and disadvantages of creating a similar structure, separate from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the United States.

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• Verlag: RAND Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0833035134
• ISBN 13: 9780833035134
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 90
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