Uncertain Shield

"Ever since the 2004 publication of the 9/11 Commission Report, the U.S. community has been in the throes of a convulsive movement for reform. In Preventing Surprise Attacks (2005), Richard A. Posner carried the story of the reform movement up to the enactment of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which produced a defective plan for reorganizing the intelligence system, partly as a result of the failure of the 9/11 Commission and Congress to bring historical, comparative, and scholarly perspectives to bear. At the time, however, the reformed structure had not yet been set in place. Posner's new book, Uncertain Shield, brings the story up-to-date. He argues that the decisions about structure the administration has made in implementation of the act are creating a too-top-heavy, too-centralized intelligence system."--BOOK JACKET.